DeVante Love

Bio

DeVante Love (they/them) is an Indigiqueer monk, martial artist, and spiritual scholar who is on a mission to spread inner peace through a variety of performance modalities such as kung fu, contemporary dance, and poetry. Through their company, the Inner Peace Dojo, they have travelled throughout the US and East Asia performing ritualized choreoplays and teaching warrior dances that serve as medicine for the collective unconscious. They hold a Master’s in Spiritual Psychology and are currently pursuing a PhD researching how dance functions as ancestral veneration and a tool for collective healing in QTBIPOC communities. Their work honors the lineage of the ballroom scene, spiritualized martial arts practices, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Afro-diasporic resistance