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Adam W. McKinney is Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to creating projects and dialogue around culture, class, ability and identity. Its mission is to catalyze community-wide healing and action. He is a former company member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, Cedar Lake Ensemble, and Milwaukee Ballet Company. He was a US Embassy Culture Connect Envoy to South Africa and an artist-in-residence at the South African Ballet Theatre. He taught master classes throughout Cape Town and Johannesburg and choreographed for Agulhas Theatre Works, a mixed abilities contemporary dance company.
Adam W. McKinney is a recipient of the 2008 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Gallatin (NYU) Jewish Arts grant, and the Bronfman Jewish Artist Fellowship to continue in the research of dance as a catalyst toward systemic change with Ethiopian-Israeli communities in Haifa, Israel. Named one of the most influential African-Americans in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA by St. Vincent DePaul of Milwaukee in 2000, Adam is an advocate for young people's liberation. He is dedicated to peacemaking through art-making, movement, and dance and taught the course "Movement, Healing, Ritual and Performance" at the University of Ghana through NYU's Global Program in the Spring of 2006.
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