Davalois is a Bessie-awarded, critically acclaimed choreographer, dancer, and educator. Dance Magazine highlighted her as one of the "7 Up-and-Coming Black Dance Artists Who Should Be On Your Radar" in 2018. She founded Davalois Fearon Dance (DFD) in 2016 to push artistic and social boundaries by creating multidisciplinary works that confront complex issues, prompt contemplation, and cultivate the next generation of artists. She collaborates with dancers, composers, musicians, poets, visual artists, and performance artists, which allow her to transport her audiences to a world that raises awareness of community issues. Her creative research encompasses translating words, images, emotions, and situations into her unique movement vocabulary, drawing from the dance styles she was exposed to during her Bronx-raised, Jamaican-centric upbringing and her professional experience in concert dance. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at New York City venues such as the Joyce Theatre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New Victory Theater. Among many others, she completed commissions for the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Princeton University. Her awards include Mosaic Network & Fund, DanceNYC's Dance Advancement Fund Award, the MAP Fund, and various Bronx Council on the Arts grants. She has been featured in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, in poet Ntozake Shange's book, Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance, in the documentary If the Dancer Dances, and most recently in the book A Year of Black Joy by Jamia Wilson.
