Sulé adams
Producer | Performing Artist | Educator
A native of New Orleans, Sulé enjoys a career that personifies artistic versatility. He has worked in roles including dancer, educator, producer, choreographer and arts administrator. He received his B.S. in Community Arts Management from SUNY Empire State College and M.A. in Leadership in the Arts & Entertainment Industries from New York Institute of Technology. Sulé’ steered himself to work with and study under the leadership of many widely renowned and highly-esteemed individuals including Abdoulaye “Papa” Camara, Mariama Curry, Marie Basse, Ronald K. Brown, Assane Konte, Richard Gonzalez, Greer Goff Mendy, Theodore H. Jamison, and Danny Hinds to name few.
A former company member of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company, Sulé’s accomplishments also include becoming a principal dancer with recognition in several musicals which include his choreography – an original musical A Wife For Itsai (M.C. Benjamin), A Song Not New, My Dreams Are, Just A Winter Night, Mirror- Mirror, In Celebration (L. Jones), We’ve Come This Far By Faith (T. Hayes), and Raisin (the musical adaptation of the play A Raisin in the Sun).
In addition to performing, Sulé directed and wrote the script for N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company’s production Kumba Amde – Kumba Amunde. During his teaching tenure with New Orleans Public School System he wrote, produced and choreographed Sankofa: In the Days of the Dance – a timeline of the history of Black Dance used as a teaching tool to educate his students
I n 2000-2002 Sulé became the Artistic Director of Allahbatu African Dance and Drum Company (New Orleans, LA) where he choreographed its second annual production of Allabatu.
After moving to Atlanta, Sulé became the first African American to tour with the electrifying all male South African dance company Soweto Street Beat. While in Atlanta, Sulé also taught community dance classes and workshops, produced, choreographed, and consulted other artists and companies as the Founding Artistic Director of Whole Heart Productions (2004-2008). A few productions and choreographies with WHP included: Dreamality – Act Upon Your Dreams the sizzling, raw debut of WHP; Men of the Night, in the production “She Lives! Celebrating the Life of Katherine Dunham,” for the Dunham Institute of Atlanta during the Dynamic Dance Festival; Conquering Lion “Celebrating Richard” the 80th Birthday Celebration of Dr. Richard Long and Kasundae for the 100 Black Men of Dekalb’s Kwanzaa Celebration.
Ignited by his passion for the arts, Sulé’s mission is to always advocate and assist in building communities through arts education. In 2018, Hudson Warehouse presented Sulé with the Richard Harden Award for excellence in theater arts education and outreach.“Dance is always a work through spirit.” Living and working by that motto, Sulé continues to share and pave a way for dreamers and their dreams as the Founder & Executive Producer of the newly reestablished Whole Heart Productions.
Artist Statement
I am the vision of my Ancestor’s wildest dreams! As a dancer and producer, I work to raise awareness through dance forms – culturally, historically and spiritually – compelling the broader community to expand their embrace of the world. Fostering traditional Afrocentric dance education as a healing force, my teaching includes artpreneurial training for artists, so those in the dance and arts field can establish firm professional footing.
My rigorous training in traditional West African and African diasporic dance forms are the foundation for designing and producing my events, employing all of the arts as a force for collaboration, transformation, and growth.
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