HOW WE DO
WHAT WE DO
HOW WE DO
WHAT WE DO
onCUE creates, unites, and empowers healthy and wealthy creative activists dedicated to serving the underprivileged in their community through a three-part system called “The S-trinity."
S-Trinity
Sharing
Sharing
The onCUE Collective is a group of SFTM practitioners committed to sharing kinetic stories that foreground voices of the historically oppressed within the United States.
The chronicles can manifest in a myriad of ways: video, stage performance, web comics, etc. However, the mission stays the same--inspire audiences towards supporting the demographics represented, and combatting the systems of oppression these demographics face.​
When I'm courageously moving from deep listening to my inner-and-outer worlds I am moving truly."- Quilan "Cue" Arnold
S-Trinity
Shifting
Shifting
onCUE builds programming that encourages our community to shift towards personal and social change.
Through the onCUE Center of Learning (onCUE COL) we provide online classes, podcasts, and communal chats that help individuals positively shift themselves and historically oppressed communities.
About the founder
About the founder
Quilan “Cue” Arnold (MFA) is a movement artist based out of Union City, NJ, who uses his God-given gifts to create systems that advocate for the liberation of all people. He is currently a New Directions Choreography Lab Artist-in-Residence at Alvin Ailey.
As a performer Quilan has been a member of companies such as Camille A. Brown and Dancers (NY), Rennie Harris Puremovement (PA), Netta Yerushalmy Dance Company (NY), Abby Z and the New Utility (NY), and Enzo Celli Vivo Ballet (NY).
Quilan’s most recent choreographic works, True Move: Quilan and Club KINGDOM, were presented at Green Space Theater (NY) and University of Texas- Austin, respectively, in 2022. Other choreographic commissions include Brigham-Young University (UT), Western Washington University (WA), and Hunter College (NY).
Quilan is the co-founder of the Street/Club Dance podcast, The Good Foot Podcast, executive director of the Street/Club Dance documentary, Build’N Shop, which is partially funded by the 2018 Ohio State Dance Preservation Grant; and co-founder of the online battle event, Dominate from a Distance.
As an educator Quilan has served numerous dance institutions by foregrounding the value of Street/Club Dance philosophy towards dance technique, U.S. history, antiracism, and more. A few of Quilan’s educational commissions include University of Texas- Austin’s (TX), Hunter College (NY), Marymount Manhattan College (NY), and Towson University (MD). Additionally, Quilan hosts an online Hip-Hop course, Get Groovy.
awards
CUNY Dance Initiative
2023-25
Artist in Residence at Queensborough Community College '24-'25
Artist Resident at Lehman College '23-'24
alvin ailey school
2020 & 2022
New Directions Choreography Lab Artist in Residence
All Arts "Alvin Ailey New Directions" Documentary Featured Artist (Webby and Emmy nominated)
creative capital
2021
Award Finalist Nominee (Top 5% of 4,000 Applications)
Hunter college
2021
Transformative Learning in the Humanities Grant
antiracism
center for safety and change
2022
Getting to the Root Antiracism Workshop
Gibney dance center
2021-22
Co-Facilitator of Let’s Unpack This: Anti-Oppressive Dialogue with Dancers
Hunter college
2020-21
Re-Imaging Social Equity Faculty Collective