Randy Ford
We had the immense pleasure of working with Randy as the choreographer for our Production of Journey West! The Legend of Lewis & Clark. She is ridiculously talented, and a true ray of sunshine. If you ever have the chance to catch her perform or donate to any of her work I promise you will not regret it! Randy is a true talent, and her light emanates through all her work.
"Randy Ford aka Aísha Noir (she/her/Goddess), is a Seattle-born creative (dancer, choreographer, actor, activist, curator, and educator, songwriter, rapper). She has been featured in CD Forum’s Showing Out: Contemporary Black Choreographers, Bumbershoot Festival, Dani Tirrell’s Black Bois, BenDeLaCreme’s Beware The Terror of Gaylord Manor, and Kitten N’ Lou’s CAMPTACULAR and Jingle All The Gay. She created and co-produced her first full-length evening show QUEEN STREET at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute with CD Forum in September of 2019. She is a member of Seattle’s Au Collective, a dance organization committed to putting queer people, womxn, and people of color at the forefront of everything it does. When not creating art, she works as the Development Associate at the Lavender Rights Project, a legal and social service organization for the gender-diverse community. She’s part of their WA Black Trans Task Force working on a Housing Initiative to provide Black Trans Women and Femmes temporary to semi-permanent housing. Her community work also extends to the Seattle-Tacoma Kiki Ballroom scene with the Royal House of Noir as the Knight and house auntie Aísha Noir. Randy has been recognized as an Artist To Watch for City Arts Magazine's 2018 Future's List Awards and her work QUEEN STREET was nominated and a finalist for the prestigious Queer | Art | Prize for Recent Work. She is the recipient of the 2020 Zeitgeist Award presented by the Gender Justice League for her work in community. Her music is coming soon this fall/winter so be on the lookout for all she's up to at therandyford.com and IG @theaishanoir @dandyaffair."
