Stephan Isijia Reynolds

Dancer, Choreographer, Creative Producer, Life Coach, and Owner of the Sin City Pageantry, LLC, Stephan is already a seasoned veteran of live on-stage performance. His dance training includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Dance Theater of Harlem, Paul Taylor, and the Martha Graham School. To list but some of his credits: In 1998, he was selected to perform the lead solo in Paul Taylor's Company B. In 1999, he performed the leading role in Penumbra's Black Nativity and performed with the show for three consecutive years. As well as Black Nativity, here in Atlanta with Dominion Entertainment for the past 7 years. He has worked with Christina Aguilera, Deborah Cox, Debbie Allen, Deborah Gibson, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson (30th Anniversary Celebration on NBC), Al Jarreau, Monica, Mya, Usher, Jill Scott, Martha Wash, Crystal Waters, Kristine W, RuPaul, Celine Dion in A New Day, and most recently The Braxtons, 2 Chainz, Janelle Monet, Kandi Burruss, D Woods, Angie Stone, Q Parker, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Keke Wyatt, and Tony Terry. He has choreographed for Knick City Dancers, New York Liberty, Memphis State University, SUNY at Purchase College, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas Gladiators, Southern Methodist University, The Polish National Ballet, and has danced and taught Master Classes in over 50 major cities and all throughout Europe, including Paris, Warsaw, Alexandria, Norway, Greece, London, Montreal, Quebec, Dortmund, Africa, Argentina, Singapore, Sidney, and Zurich, to name a few. While doing all this, he has performed full time, since 2003, as a named character Le Travesti (meaning the transvestite) in Cirque du Soleil's production of "O" at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and assisted Cirque in Choreographing "Love", at the Mirage hotel also in Las Vegas. Many may remember him for his work in Married to Medicine, The Braxton Family Values, or Housewives of Atlanta. He is also a Principal Dancer in the HBO movie Bessie starring Queen Latifah, World's Away Directed by James Cameron, and Bolden starring Gary Carr and Robert Ri'chard. Since attending his first ADTA conference in 2017, a lot has happened. With the purchase of a new dance studio, in 2018, he presented Inauthentic Living: A Black Man’s Struggle at the NEADTA conference and followed that up by co-presenting Moving Blind Spots: Cultural Bias in the Movement Repertoire of Dance/Movement Therapists and Foregrounding Social Justice in DMT Education at ADTA. For the past 2 years, Stephan has served as the Creative Director for ADTA and has co-presented various workshops He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University, where he will continue to use the arts as a means of healing and understanding while fostering communication for African American males in his communities.