Dorchel Haqq

Dorchel Haqq was raised in Harlem and began her journey embodying history at LaRocque Bey School of Dance Theatre and the Dance Theater of Harlem. Her interest in the body as a political artifact blossomed at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. It deepened while studying at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. While at Purchase, she studied abroad at the Korea National School of Arts. She continuously cultivates her movement language by exploring the reflections of fantasy while abstracting the echoes of transgenerational trauma through her body. Film, sound exploration, and object investigation have added dimensions to her practice of active archiving. These organizations have fed her practice: Springboard Danse and the Springboard Danse curated Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Founder’s Residency, Gallim Moving Artist(inaugural resident), Leimay Incubator, Center for Performance Research, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, Beyond the Black Box, Black Aesthetics Judson Commons, Arts On Site, Movement Research, City Artist Corps Grants, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Dorchel has danced in works by Loni Landon, Kayla Farrish, Stefanie Batten Bland, and Kyle Abraham, and has performed in Sleep No More, Shanghai, and Emursive’s Life and Trust. She is an adjunct lecturer at Purchase College, where her work has also been commissioned. Dorchel is a 2025 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow, mentored by Nora Chipaumire.