Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Kierra Williams is currently a senior at Indiana University pursuing a B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance with an Arts Management minor. She is from Atlanta, Georgia and has been dancing for 19 years. Prior to coming to Indiana University, she danced competitively at Price Performing Arts Center, where she specialized in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, pointe, hip hop, and contemporary. She also attended numerous summer dance intensives to include Florida State Summer Dance intensive and the state of Georgia’s Governor’s Honors Program which is a residential program for gifted and talented students. She also trained at the Atlanta Ballet and Gotta Dance Atlanta. In her sophomore year at Indiana University, she was cast in Juel D. Lane’s original work Ego in the Shifting Landscapes production in 2020. Kierra has also performed in Bill T. Jones’ piece, What Problem and Cameron McKinney’s original work, Beclouded. Kierra is a member of the International Association of Blacks in Dance and the African American Dance Company at Indiana University. She is also the Contemporary Dance Representative for the Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance Student Advisory Board (SAB). She has been involved in film and television where she participated as an extra in Couples Court with the Cutlers, Personal Injury Court, DC’s Stargirl, and P-Valley. In 2021, Kierra filmed and edited her own film, My Black Voice, where she was chosen as a recipient for the Mobile Dance Film Festival.