Artist | Educator | Organizer
Choreographing Transformation
MK Abadoo is a choreographer, dance artist, educator, and cultural organizer creating work across generations. Rooted in the US South, including Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia, their practice lives at the intersection of immersive performance, justice-making, and community accountability.
Abadoo’s work intentionally and impactfully brings artists and communities into shared space through performance processes that value creativity as shared wisdom and collective responsibility. Across stages, classrooms, and community settings, they create conditions where people can gather with honesty and intention, and where the process of making is inseparable from how people relate to one another.
Abadoo’s work is grounded in:
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Immersive, site-informed, and theatrical performance works
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Sustainable equity and belonging systems-building
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Intergenerational community and ensemble development
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Strategic storytelling and narrative design
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Curriculum design and leadership development
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Collaborative visioning and project stewardship
Abadoo is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, where they train the next generation of artists, educators, and organizers at the intersections of belonging and imagination. They have designed courses, workshops, programs, and systems of change for hundreds of professionals and students, supporting the development of skills in recognizing systemic inequity, listening for understanding, engaging thoughtfully in difficult conversations, practicing accountability in mindful speech, and building meaningful connectivity across difference.
Abadoo’s work has toured nationally and internationally and has been supported by major cultural institutions and funders. They are a John F. Kennedy Center–commissioned artist, a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a Dance/USA Fellow, and a recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project Award. Named a “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine and honored with a 40 Under 40 Award by the Prince George’s County Social Innovation Fund, Abadoo is widely regarded as a change-making artist whose work advances both the field of dance and the ways communities imagine, gather, and lead together.
