onCUE Center of Liberation
Welcome to the onCUE Center of Liberation, the online creative hub of onCUE Chronicles! About onCUE Center of Liberation (COL): “We’re grappling with a problem that constantly emerges in history. You have a few people who are crusaders in the right direction (and) a few people who are crusaders in the wrong direction. The vast majority are out there in the middle somewhere… (being) passive adherence to the status quo. I think the job for the creative minority is to work on this large group towards the legitimate and just demands of the (oppressed).” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). The onCUE COL is the media center to create, unite, and empower healthy and wealthy citizen artists. We believe in MLK's dream where "the creative minority" shifts people towards social justice. How do we do that from a place of spiritual, mental, and financial abundance rather than from a place of lack and impoverishment? The onCUE COL invites you into our creative process in how we establish artifacts (dance theater performance and education) that empower people to integrate their personal narratives with liberating philosophies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About the Founder, Quilan "Cue" Arnold: Quilan “Cue” Arnold (MFA) is a movement artist based out of Union City, NJ, and Austin, TX who uses his God-given gifts to create systems that advocate for the liberation of all people. He is currently a New Directions Choreography Lab Artist-in-Residence at Alvin Ailey. As a performer Quilan has been a member of companies such as Camille A. Brown and Dancers (NY), Rennie Harris Puremovement (PA), Netta Yerushalmy Dance Company (NY), Abby Z and the New Utility (NY), and Enzo Celli Vivo Ballet (NY). Quilan’s most recent choreographic works, True Move: Quilan and Club KINGDOM, were presented at Green Space Theater (NY) and University of Texas- Austin, respectively, in 2022. Other choreographic commissions include Brigham-Young University (UT), Western Washington University (WA), and Hunter College (NY). Quilan is the founder of onCUE Chronicles; the co-founder of the Street/Club Dance podcast, The Good Foot Podcast; executive director of the Street/Club Dance documentary, Build’N Shop, which is partially funded by the 2018 Ohio State Dance Preservation Grant; and co-founder of the online battle event, Dominate from a Distance. As an educator Quilan has served numerous dance institutions by foregrounding the value of Street/Club Dance philosophy towards dance technique, U.S. history, antiracism, and more. A few of Quilan’s educational commissions include University of Texas- Austin’s (TX), Hunter College (NY), Marymount Manhattan College (NY), and Towson University (MD). Additionally, Quilan hosts an online Hip-Hop course, Get Groovy.
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