弗吉尼亚英联邦大学BFA。最近被承认为舞蹈中的2021年公主恩惠奖，Mercer是一个奇怪的黑思想家，制造商，表演者，教育家，以及出生于弗吉尼亚里士尚，纽约市的社会企业家。他有特权，并与安东尼奥布朗，蒙特拉黑（杰出的黑人），安德烈··赫斯顿 - 琼斯（2018 remount），Netta yerushalmy，玛丽亚鲍曼/ MBDance，Edisa周/令人惊讶的舞蹈，和安东尼奥拉莫斯;他也是Ishmael Houston-Jones和Miguel Gutierrez的Bessie屡获殊荣的重建/重新观看变体的一部分，从丢失和发现的主题：来自John Bernd的生活和其他工作的场景。一位活跃的教育家，Mercer在纽约公立学校制度中教导通过领导计划，是一名基于指导的组织，它使用艺术来吸取恢复正义和自我赋权。Mercer还曾在美国舞蹈节，帕茨舞蹈节，普朗特研究所，吉布尼，马萨诸塞大学，Desales大学，Muhlenberg College，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀大学（居住在澳大利亚州）先锋舞蹈师）。他最近的流程和艺术作品已经举办和介绍：92Y Harkness Dance Center，Gibney：Agnes Varis表演艺术中心，Theshed，Bronx艺术学院（BAAD！），DIXON PLACE，DANSPACE PROJECT INC，DANSPACE PROJECT INCFusebox Festival, Mana Contemporary, The NADA Conference, Abrons Arts Center, and most recently at The Clarice Performing Arts’s The BlackLight Summit. Mercer has had the honor of being in community with The 92Y Harkness Dance Center (2016-2017 AIR), Cuny Dance Initiative at York College (2017-2018 AIR), NYU Tisch Dance (2018 Summer Creative Residency), Bates Dance Festival (2018 AIR), Abrons Arts Center (AIRSpace 2018), Stephen Petronio Center (2019 Partnership Residency Program), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (AIR 2019-2021), and The New Dance Alliance (Black Artists Space to Create Inaugural AIR 2020-2021); he was a Creative Fellow with Ping Chong and Company, working in Archival Storytelling and Creative Media for their 2020-2021 season. He is the founder and company director of TheREDprojectNYC (TRPNYC), a multidisciplinary arts ensemble dedicated to the study of movement philosophy and its use toward building communal spaces for Black/other process, documentation, and investigation. Together, Mercer and TRPNYC are in their fourth year of the company’s current six-year project: “A Process Anthology: The Decade From Hell and the Decade That Followed Suite.” Charted as 10 individual memoir-based happenings/events, the full project will soon come to a close with two DocuEpic Works set to launch in fall 2022 (commissioned by Gibney) and spring 2024. SLC, 2022–
