Melanin Mosaic Performance Ensemble

Melanin Mosaic Performance Ensemble is a growing creative collective of storytellers creating across performance, film, education, and community care. Using creative movement as our primary language, we blend color guard, dance, music, and storytelling to create original work that highlights culture, identity, and well-being. Founded by Artistic Director Jarid Polite, our projects range from live performances and educational programs to films and workshops designed to support healthier, more inclusive creative spaces.

Take a look around. If you’re interested in connecting or getting involved, we invite you to reach out.

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Live Performance Opportunity - NYC

NYC Color Guard Casting

We are gathering interest from up to 60 teen and adult color guard performers for a major live performance in New York City.

Performers must have flag experience and be available September 24, 25 and 26, 2026. Final details will be shared as the project is confirmed.

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Mosaic, with Love

Culture. Community. Care.

Mosaic, with Love is more than a signoff. It is the philosophy behind how we create, collaborate, and share our work.

It begins with the belief that everyone has something meaningful to contribute. Regardless of race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, ability, socioeconomic background, experience, or where someone comes from, each person carries ideas, stories, skills, and ways of seeing the world that can add something valuable to the Mosaic.

We honor those differences without allowing them to determine who belongs. We build community through participation, care for the people behind the work, and value the process as much as the finished performance. We meet one another with respect, generosity, honesty, and joy while creating room for people to share what they know, explore what they do not, and make something together.

Mosaic is what we build together. Love is how we build it.