Kieron Dwayne Sargeant is a Trinidadian-born interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and dance researcher emerging out of the African-Caribbean tradition. Over the past 20 years, he has been involved in documenting, assessing, and analyzing dance traditions of the Caribbean and establishing a canon of dance teachings and workshops, informed by his research, to popularize the ancestral survival of movement traditions between the Circum-Caribbean and Western Africa.

His research focuses on the field of African Caribbean and African Diaspora dance practices. In particular, his work explores both regenerative and deconstructionist methodological approaches to engaging with African Traditional Trinidadian Dances for the concert, commercial and contemporary dance world. His current research focuses on embodied ethnography as a technology for tracing Africanist diasporic meaning making across time and space through the body in performance.

His artistic practice includes translating sacred cultural and spiritual practices into artistic practices, resulting in dance works for the concert and commercial stage. He has previously presented his research at the Preaching as Performance Conference, at the University of Calgary (Canada) and the NEPCA Dance and Popular Culture Conference, at Worcester State University (U.S.A.). ‘Mystical Consciousness’ (2019) - a dance work based on his former work entitled, Choreographing Mourning (2019) - A Ritual of the Spiritual Baptist Faith in Trinidad and Tobago", which is an African-Caribbean syncretistic religious practice. In the work Mystical Consciousness, he investigated notions of representation, connectedness, and consciousness in portraying the significance of "Africa" in the Spiritual Baptist Church, the relationship of insider/outsider, and perception vs reality in African religious practices and aesthetics. His latest work “He Shall Walk (2022)” is a solo performance presented by Northwestern Black Arts Consortium as part of The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation” Sawyer Seminar, which was sponsored by Mellon Foundation. This solo performance continues Sargeant’s work on African religious practices and aesthetics by connecting African- American ‘danced spirituals’ to the Spiritual Baptist Faith in Trinidad and Tobago through Talley Beatty’s The Mourners Bench (1947). From August 2021 to March 2022 Mr. Sargeant was a collaborator on a Mellon funded project, Writing the Body with Dr. Lara Cahill-Booth, an Associate Professor in the English and Communications department at Miami Day College. His choreography has been presented nationally at Suny Brockport, Florida State University, Northwestern University, Universoul circus (Atlanta), Air Dance Conference (Miami), 621 Gallery and internationally in Nigeria, Canada, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Mexico, London, Barcelona, Portugal, and Malaga.

Mr. Sargeant has conducted African Diaspora and Caribbean dance Masterclasses at Queensborough Community College, NYU Steinhardt, New York University, and Simon Fraser University of Contemporary Arts. Prior to this, he taught Masterclasses and Workshops in African-Caribbean, African-diasporic, and African-contemporary at Ecole Des Sables (Senegal), at the Mojuba Black Dance Festival,, the University of Florida, at the National Dance Education Colorado Conference, Sacramento State University, at Columbus State University, at Florida State University, at the Edna Manley School of the Performing Arts (Jamaica), at The Dance Guild (Nigeria), International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference (IABD) and the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD).

Mr. Sargeant holds an M.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from Florida State University, M.A. in Community Dance Practice from Ohio University and B.A in Dance from the University of West Indies. In 2020, he was awarded a place in the Helen Pickett Choreographic Essentials Program, received the FA Ada Belle Winthrop King Art Endowment Award (2019), and was also awarded a Dance Fellowship from UNESCO to South Africa (2020). Most recently, he was honored with the 2021 International Artist Award - Ayjano Folklore Heritage of Nigeria. He also presented his work at the Festival of African and Caribbean Cultures (FESTACC) in 2018. In 2021, he was selected to join the coordinating team of the Emerging Black Choreographers Incubator as a mentor by Mojuba Dance Collective (MDC) based in Ohio, USA. In 2022 he was appointed to the advisory board of the (MDC).

In 2020 he founded and launched the Kieron Sargeant Dance and Dance Education Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, which is a new platform for artists/dancers to nurture their creativity, inspire their environments, and empower themselves and the future of the arts industry in Trinidad and Tobago. He also collaborated with the Tabanka Dance Ensemble (Norway) 2021, to host an ongoing Online Lecture Series of in-depth talks, sharing of knowledge, and connecting with African and African diaspora scholars, artists, and dancers from around the world. He has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Charles O. Anderson, Tiffany Rhynard, and Milka Djordjevich among many others.