Mickael is an interdisciplinary artist working in music, movement, and writing. Her artistic foundation is rooted in extensive professional and academic performance experience, beginning in childhood and continuing through higher education. Prior to college, she was first chair violinist in Orchestra and performed throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area as a member of the Kansas City Girls Choir, serving as Ms. KCGC, a leadership and representative role within the organization. She also competed in State-level choir festivals as a chorister and soloist. She modeled and was signed with Model Talent Group from the age of eleven.

Mickael earned a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Concentration Dance from Spelman College, where she was a member of the Spelman College Dance Theatre, creating choreographic works throughout her matriculation. She also simultaneously was a member of the Spelman College Glee Club and toured nationally during the annual Spring Glee Tour four years consecutively. Her performance experience includes but not limited to collaborations and sharing stages with artists such as Jennifer Holiday, Cassie Davis, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Stevie Wonder, and John Legend. She performed with Spelman Dance Theatre, T. Lang Dance company throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area and Art in Motion dance company in Kansas City.

Mickael has taught as a Dance Improvisation and Youth Modern Dance Teacher with City in Motion, modeled and walked runway for the West 18th Street Fashion Show, and recently performed individually as a vocal artist selected among the top 15 of 50 artists to perform at the finals of the 18th and Vine Arts Festival.

Her current work shifts away from performance-driven outcomes toward studio-based research focused on presence, embodiment, sound and creative regulation as pathways to authenticity.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice lives at the intersection of music and movement.
Rather than viewing these disciplines as separate, I approach them as
interconnected methods helping me investigate what it means to become my highest
self expression. I am interested in creative practice as a way of
listening—to memory, to the body, and to the parts of ourselves that often emerge
beyond language.

While my foundation is rooted in music and dance, I have become increasingly drawn to
improvisation as both an artistic and personal practice. I am less interested in creating
choreography solely for performance than I am in creating frameworks that invite
discovery, presence, and transformation; allowing the body to lead. I am also
increasingly drawn to music, whether singing or instrumental study. I value the
transformation that blossoms from being present in sound. I also value the research
between the inner ear and the connection to higher consciousness. Discovering the
concept of natural vibration and everyone having their own, I continue to explore and
discover mine.

Through movement, writing, sound, and documentation, I explore how artistic processes
can reveal who we are becoming in real time.

I think of my work as a living archive. Whether through journals, movement scores,
music analysis, studying music instrumentation, recording audio, I seek to document
the evolution of my artistic voice and lived experience. For me, documentation is not
secondary to the work, it is part of the work. It preserves questions, moments of
vulnerability, and epiphanies that might otherwise disappear once a performance ends.
My work is creating a living archive of the questions I ask, the answers I find, and the
artist I am continuously growing into.

It is deeply informed by Black musical traditions, self regulation, and the joy I first
experienced through song and dance. Those early experiences continue to shape my
belief that creativity is a practice of remembering and returning to ourselves. I create
with the hope that art can cultivate curiosity, self-trust, and authentic expression,
honoring the process as much as the product.

I believe our greatest work is not only what we create, but who we become through the
act of creating.