2007
- Ayesha Jaco offers Dance Class as alternative to gym at Austin High School, After School Matters Club
2008
- Move Me Soul is formed as a teen dance company
- Yolanda Pittman Maloney joins program as instructor
- Move Me Soul becomes an After School Matters Dance Apprentice program providing stipends to 30 teens.
- Company presents first annual Winter and Spring dance concerts.
2009
- Move Soul begins implementing career readiness and STD prevention workshops
- Program becomes After School Matters Apprenticeship
- Move Soul offers first Summer Intensive for 15 Austin Teens
- Company presents 1st Summer Dance Concert
- Selected teens participate in Lupe Fiasco Foundation’s Off The Block Global Exchange program pairing Austin teens with teens in South Korea.
2010
- Move Me Soul performs at IAPHERD National Conference, St. Charles IL
- 10 Young men enrolled as apprentice artists
- Diana Muhammad joins program as Choreographer/Instructor
2011
- First Graduating class attends college
- Lincoln College scouts dancers at Spring Concert.
- Shalonza Wickliffe receives full dance scholarship to Lincoln University
- Alumni Company Formed
- Move Me Soul honors Steve Cobb and Chavunduka as Winter Concert Community Artists Recipients.
- Winter, Spring and Summer dance concert audiences surpass 200
- 100% of graduating seniors attend college.
2012
- Move Me Soul performs at Kwanzaa at Chicago State University
- Move Me Soul performs at Black Women’s Expo Gala.
- Move Me Soul honors legacy of Oscar Brown Jr. at presents family with award at Winter Concert.
- Move Me Soul partners with Skill Up Chicago and Lupe Fiasco Foundation’s study abroad efforts to send 2 dancers to Ghana.
2013
- Move Me Soul become artists in residence at the Austin Resource Center
- 2 Alumni attend Children’s Defense Fund Conference in Tennessee.
2014
- Move Me Soul Instructors co-facilitate in After School Matters Dance Winter Intensive with Hi-Def Dance Ensemble at Roosevelt University-January 2014
- Teens perform for Jesse White Black History Celebration, State of Illinois Building (February 2014)
- Teens featured in Najwa Dance Corps Black History Month Extravaganza, DuSable Museum February 2014
- Move Me Soul Partners with college enrichment program and sends 10 graduating seniors on college tour to Talledega College in Alabama-March 2014
- Move Me Soul performs for South African Youth Day-June 2014
- Move Me Soul Performs for South African Women’s Day-August 2014
- Teens Perform for 1st Annual AAHH Fest at Union Park-September 2014
- Over 500 audience members attend Winter, Spring and Summer Shows.
2015
- ABC7 live opening act for Bud Biliken Parade
- 10 teens Edna Manley Arts College, Rex Nettleford Arts Conference in Kingston, Jamaica
- Signature Dance “Curtis Suite & Sour” featured at Chicago Teen Dance Festival at the Harris Theater
- Move Me Soul South side dance and spoken word programs added
- Conference & Performance at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana
- Participation in Mandela Fellows with 20 countries in Africa
- Partnership with Employer Services Inc. job training for alumni
