Yauri Dalencour, MFA, BFA, MA, Ph.D. (abd) is an interdisciplinary dance and visual artist, digital archivist, and entrepreneur. Her training includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, her dance degree programs, and various NYC; San Francisco; Genoa, Italy, and Burgos, Spain dance studios during her time in those locations. Yauri is a classically trained anthropologist, was an archivist for Katherine Dunham and has a background in International Studies, African American and Ethnic Studies, Women Studies and technology. She has performed as a solo artist and with dance companies and musical theatre nationally and abroad.

Concerned with intersections between art, culture, education, and technology, Yauri is a storyteller using dance, visual art, installation, and new media to create multi-sensory performance works, engendering empathy and engaging critical consciousness. She is the Founder/Artistic Director of Yauri Dalencour Dance that has several initiatives and coined the term ethnodanceology, naming one of her community based education outreach initiatives after it, EthnodanceologyCreative. She is CEO/Owner of Dancetime Publications, Co-founder of the Brelii, Editorial Board Member of the publication, Dance Education in Practice, Board of Directors, Director of Awards for the National Dance Education Organization and Layout Editor/Designer for Jack and Jill of American, Inc covering several regional publications. Yauri is also a full-spectrum doula and home birther of her kids. Her work explores visual culture and representations of the Black experience, particularly family and Black motherhood.

Her current projects include her work in the Vaseline commercial with Regina King for their American Reborn (#healthequity) campaign through 2021, Eloquent Labor//Unfractured Woman, and Society’s Cage (#societyscage), a public art installation on tour that began on the National Washington Mal, has gone in Tulsa, Oklahoma honoring the 100 year anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and is now in Oakland, California. Yauri is a contributor on the recent Google Doodle, Savoy Ballroom and it’s Behind the Scenes film and resides with her husband, five kids and dog, Harlem in the indigenous land of Manahoac in Upper Potomac.