Columbia College Black Alumni

 Sydnie Mosley, BC ‘07

A 21 year old native of Baltimore, MD, Sydnie Mosley, BC ‘07 arrived on Barnard’s campus her first year immediately becoming involved in the community. Sydnie, a double major in Dance and Africana Studies, tackles a full course load while staying involved on and off campus. At Barnard, Sydnie has been an active participant in many on-campus organizations. She is a former First-Year Representative and Secretary for BOSS and currently serves as their Senior Representative. She was a board member of Orchesis in the Spring and Fall of 2004, participating as a dancer and choreographer from Fall 2003 through the Spring of 2005. Moreover, she served as a New Student Orientation Program (NSOP) Orientation Leader for two years and finds time to work on campus recruiting new students as a Barnard Student Admissions Representative (BSAR). As if that is not enough, Sydnie continues to work on and off campus as an Administrative Intern for the Brooklyn Ballet in 2005 and currently as a Technical Production Assistant for the Dance Department, and a Research Assistant for the Africana Studies Program at Barnard. In addition, Sydnie studied abroad in Ghana this past Spring where she developed the idea for her senior thesis. Currently, most of her time is spent researching for her senior thesis project in which she is comparing how dance/movement is used for Christian worship among Africans in Accra, Ghana and African Americans in Baltimore, MD. Simultaneously, Sydnie is rehearsing to perform in the Barnard Project sponsored by the Barnard Dance Department at Dance Theater Workshop, a professional dance theater downtown in New York. She plans to choreograph and produce a work next semester as a part of her senior project in dance.

Sydnie has begun planning for life after graduation by looking for jobs in arts administration. Her interests lie in dance education, community based arts programs, and learning about dance company management and production. While working, she will continue to both take dance class and choreograph works. After working for a few years she will apply to Master of Fine Arts programs in dance, a degree that will enable her to continue to strengthen her dance technique, qualify her to teach dance at any level, build a choreographic repertoire, and increase her knowledge of dance production. Eventually, she would like to found and direct her own dance company. She envisions a professional touring dance company and arts organization created to serve as a medium for spreading God’s word as well as strengthening spirituality and faith; to serve as a home for the trained dancer with the non-traditional body type; to showcase choreography that ranges and merges contemporary and world dance techniques and forms; to provide community programming including, but not limited to classes and performances in both professional and amateur arenas; and lastly, to be a home where the dancer, human being and spirit will continually grow and flourish. Sydnie currently lives on Barnard’s Campus.