Vie Boheme is a Motown native, as she says, blossomed in Pittsburgh and refined in Minneapolis. She is a multimodal artist; a dancer, singer and choreographer. She brings athletic agility to her vocal performance through both song and dance and her sound is a fusion of Soul, Funk, Jazz, R&B and Pop. In 2018 she released a solo album titled Swoon and has created two major solo performance art pieces- Centerplay and Viva Black Volume 1. She is a former vocal artist, choreographer and co-creative director for Stokley Williams and is also a former dance artist with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, TU Dance and a founding member of The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble. She has choreographed and performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Guthrie Theater, and The Children's Theater in Minneapolis. Vie was trained at Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts and The Ailey School. Over the course of her career she performed the works of Kyle Abraham, Gregory Dolbashian, Dwight Rhoden, Uri Sands, Darrell Grand Moultrie and Sidra Bell. As a soul, funk, jazz vocalist, she has opened for international acts Little Dragon, Bilal and J*Davey. She is also a Vinyasa yoga instructor with her own philosophy that has nurtured her versatility and prepares her body for her rigorous solo work.
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SHOW NOTES:
-Vie’s website, instagram, and facebook
-Swoon - Vie Boheme’s solo album on Spotify
-Her performance pieces: Viva Black Volume 1 & Center Play
-Vie’s TEDX talk in Minneapolis
Musical/Artistic Influences:
-Karen Clark Sheard
-The Winan’s Family
-Destiny’s Child
-Betty Davis (great article on her)
-Josephine Baker
-Dinah Washington
-Ella Fitzgerald
-Nina Simone (interview clip talking about blackness)
-Eartha Kitt
-The Pillow Project
-Alvin Ailey’s Summer Intensive & Revelations
-Corepower Yoga
-Body Cartography (Olive and Otto)
-Walker Art Center Choreographers Evening
-Camille A. Brown & Company
-TU Dance
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