Winston A. Benons Jr. (He/Him) is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, scholar and educator, specializing in dance forms of the African Diaspora. He has extensive training in Afro-Cuban, Haitian, Afro-Brazilian, and Bomba dance, complemented by studies in Horton and Dunham modern dance techniques. Winston has curated and led intensive programs in culture and dance techniques in both New York City and Cuba. He is the Founder and Director of tRúe Culture & Arts, an organization dedicated to facilitating cultural exchanges, workshops, and academic residencies.

Winston holds a Bachelor of Arts in Caribbean Dance and Dance Pedagogy from SUNY Empire State College and a Certificate in Higher Education from Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago where he explored the intersections between Theater and Performance Studies, Curation and Visual Culture culminating in a thesis entitled Marked: The Racialization Of African Phenotypes And Creation Of An Embodied Archive. 

His visual arts practice employs technology through screen dance installations and digital collage work, exploring the embodied archive and themes of identity, memory, and transformation.

As an educator, Winston served as a lecturer at Pace University and an adjunct faculty member at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Additionally, he is a veteran K-12 dance and cultural studies educator. He is currently the US/MS IB Dance educator at Brooklyn Friends School. His teaching experience includes guest faculty positions at Ballet Hispánico, Peridance, Djoniba Dance & Drum, and Cumbe.

Winston's recent choreography and direction credits include Amahl and the Night Visitors and What Lies Beneath with On Site Opera, where he also served as the cultural advocate. Most recently, he developed and performed part 1 of a series entitled Conversations with Rothko at the SMART Museum in Chicago. This series integrates breath, vocalization, and dance as embodied languages used as the mode of communication between Rothko's color field paintings, the performer, and the audience.