I am Khorii Tinson (she/her/hers), roots from Atlanta, Georgia, currently located in Tallahassee, Florida. I am in my third and final year to receive my Master’s of Fine Arts in Dance from Florida State University, class of 2026. I have my Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from The University of Texas at Austin, conferred May of 2020. During my time at UT, I worked with and performed in pieces by renowned artists such as Rennie Harris, Charles O. Anderson, Gesel Mason, Jenn Freeman, Courtney Mazeika, Bridget Moore, and many others.

Most recent choreography and performance credits come from my work '“Ghetto Birds” which premiered at The 2025 ACDA Southeast Regionals Conference in March in Charleston, SC, and has been selected for The 2025 ACDA Nationals Conference in Washington, DC, performing May 3rd at The Gonda Theatre.

In the Fall of 2024, I performed a poling solo “I AM”, as a part of a larger four-solo work titled “Under the Stars, There is a Heaven”, choreographed by Kehinde Ishangi for Evening of Dance. I performed a self choreographed solo “12” for Days of Dance in the Spring 2024 Days of Dance show and additionally, was a part of FSU’s re-staging of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s 1998 work “Give Your Hands To Struggle” for An Evening of Dance (FSU) in Fall of 2023.

I joined acclaimed choreographer and artist Gesel Mason’s company, Gesel Mason Performance Projects (GMPP) in 2021 for Mason’s work “Yes, And.”. Most recent credits with the company include a retreat experience and performance in Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, Caribbean in the early summer of 2024, as well as the 2024 Fusebox Festival Exhibition in Austin, Texas at The Contemporary Museum, and the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine.

I believe in using dance as an archive for history, through the body. I have always created work that was bigger than myself, about current conversations and social issues. Right now, my thesis for my Master’s is about Resistance, and what that looks like in the body. I am passionate about social justice, and I believe in the natural tendency to fight for your self determination and liberation, which is something humans have done for millions of years. I believe in rejecting all notions of white supremacy and it’s vines, I believe nobody is free until everyone is free.

Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Palestine, Free Haiti, Free the Uyghurs, free everyone from the violent ruling powers of the world. Insha’Allah.