5/2/25-5/30/25 Lucas Arts Residency Montalvo Arts, Saratoga, NY
5/24/25 Performance Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles Historic Park, LA, CA
5/31/25 Film Screening and Lecture Show and Prove Hip Hop Conference, UCSD, San Diego, CA
6/22/25-8/15/25 Session Artist Residency Recess Arts, Brookly, NY
6/25/25 Keynote Lecture Dance Studies Association National Conference, Washington DC
9/16/25 Lecture 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
9/17-18/25 Visiting Artist New York University, NYC, NY
10/3/25 Visiting Artist University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
10/2/25 Visiting Artist School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
10/4/25 Keynote Lecture National Dance Education Organization Conference, Detroit, MI
10/11/25 Book Launch Moments Cooperative, Oakland, CA
10/11/25 Performance California Coalition for Women Prisoners benefit Fellowship Hall, Oakland, CA
11/4/25 Film Screening and Lecture Mount San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA
Performance Freedom Time, Dance at the Odyssey, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Lecture/Film Screening Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Lecture/Film Screening Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Lecture/Film Screening Flintridge Center, Pasadena, CA
Conference presentation California Dance Educators Association State Conference, Oakland, California
Conference presentation American College Dance Association Conference, Long Beach, California
Publications:
Freedom Time: Dancing Through Prison Walls https://www.smingsming.com/products/freedom-time-dancing-through-prison-walls
Awards:
Center for Cultural Innovation Artist Grant
Recess Arts (Brooklyn, NY) Residency Fellowship
Lucas Arts Residency (Montalvo Arts, Saratoga, CA) Residency Fellowship
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
Doan Foundation, Roots and Resilience Grant
Santa Monica Human Rights Wellbeing Grant
California Creative Corps Fellow (California Arts Council, and 18th Street Arts Center)
Press: “Dancing Through Prison Walls” Uma Nagarajan-Swenson, All of Us or None Newspaper. (2025)
“Can Dance Tear Down Prison Walls?” Rising Up With Sonali. (2025)
“‘Freedom Time’ is an Odyssey that Moves Thru Prison Walls” Joanne DiVito, LA Dance Chronicle. (2026)
“‘A Radical Act’: Incarcerated People Are Transforming Prisons Through Dance” Victoria Valenzuela, With my heart. (2026)
“Freedom Time Meditation: Cartographies of Release” Neta Bomani, Recess. (2026)
Funding From:
California Humanities
Los Ángeles Department of Cultural Affairs