about
Born and raised in Silver Spring Maryland, Tsola Akuya is a visionary with a niche for storytelling, exploration, and advocacy. Influenced by her love of contemporary modern movement, alternative rock music, and soulful connectivity in communal facets, Tsola thrives as a creator that harps on the importance of rawness and vulnerability.
Her corky idiosyncrasies are constantly being refined and reshaped by her never-ending love of multidisciplinary acts of blending fashion, music, and dance. Tsolas’ experiences as a professional dancer for the past five years have prepared her to naturally construct her own sense of self, on and off camera. Tsola stands behind the notions and beliefs of pouring into her artistic community and equipping up-and-coming and veteran artist with the confidence to find, re-find, and redefine themselves to obtain a greater sense of purpose.
Tsola started her professional dance career with her first work with N.E.R.D in 2017, she then continued on to become one of Pharrell Williams' on- going dancers. Through her time of being a professional dancer, Tsola has been apart of countless productions, tours, music videos, live shows, beauty and fashion campaigns with the likes of Beyonce, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, P!nk, Kanye West, and many more. Tsola continues to push to new heights within herself and community to blend her love of modern dance and contemporary mediums of art. Tsola’s dance career open doors outside of dance, such as choreographing for H.E.R’s B.E.T award show in 2021, to singing back- up for Beyoncé during the 94th annual Academy Awards early 2022.
Tsola’s work ranges from a plethora of genres and artists, starting with her first work as an assistant choreographer for H.E.R’s B.E.T Award Show performance in 2021 of “We Made It” into her solo debut as the choreographer and movement director for Roddy Ricch’s album trailer: “LIVE LIFE FAST”. As Tsola continued her creative path, she was met with opportunities to work with artists such as: D Smoke, Jimmy Jam, Ella Mai, and more. With a background of live performance in the commercial and concert dance worlds, Tsola brings a diverse perspective on what it means to humbly submit ideas and support a creative production as talent and securely lead a creative production in a new role: as a director.
Tsola innovates all mediums of art she encounters through following curiosity and fearlessly creating the art that she is solely called to bring to fruition. As a leader, Tsola works intentionally in releasing all stigmas of what different creative process should look like. Her main goal is producing unique untold narratives that are waiting to influence society back into bold storytelling, selfless artistry, and creative service.