Dance for Every Body with Urban Bush Women

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The Dance Complex

This movement jam/dance class celebrates individuality, embracing our bodies as powerful sources of agency.

About the workshop:This movement jam/dance class embraces the ideas that each individual has a unique and powerful contribution to make, and that our bodies are a powerful source of agency. The goal is for "every body" to find their level of challenge and comfort and partake according to their abilities, and to appreciate the groups’ diversity as an attribute to their community. This is a movement class designed for the community so no prior dance experience is needed. Participants explore Urban Bush Women's technique with close attention to the use of breath, weight, call and response and polyrhythms. About Urban Bush Women:Urban Bush Women (UBW) is a groundbreaking Black women-led theatrical dance company and social activism ensemble, founded in 1984 by visionary choreographer <a href="https://urbanbushwomen.org/the-founder" title="https://urbanbushwomen.org/the-founder" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jawole Willa Jo Zollar </a>as an engine and an amplifier for the unheard stories of Black Women+. Today, under the artistic leadership of <a href="https://urbanbushwomen.org/chanon-judson" title="https://urbanbushwomen.org/chanon-judson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chanon Judson</a> and <a href="https://urbanbushwomen.org/mame-diarra-speis" title="https://urbanbushwomen.org/mame-diarra-speis" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mame Diarra Speis</a>, UBW combines revolutionary performance, deep-healing community engagement, and ancestral knowledge from the African diaspora into a cultural force that is urgent, forward-looking, and essential. For the last four decades, UBW has defied expectations and easy categorization with its bold, narrative storytelling. The very bodies of the seven founding members of UBW – Black women of various shapes and sizes – challenged and changed the landscape of who could be seen on stage as a dancer. The subject matter of the work placed the stories of such women, historically overlooked and undervalued in America, front and center stage. Similarly, UBW remains committed to ensuring that underserved audiences, especially people of color who face systemic barriers to accessing conventional performance, are engaged, invited, and made welcome wherever the company tours. UBW embraces the power of radical storytelling to activate social change. Whether creating genre-defying work for the stage, guiding the development of Black Women+ choreographers and producers, organizing for justice through art-making, or inspiring leaders across generations, UBW is an innovator, operating at the vanguard.

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