Afro Urban Society & Alyah Baker present
for Black & Brown Bodies Dance Series
An installment of specialty dance workshops featuring dynamic & versatile instuctors.

Groovement for Black & Brown Bodies w/ dana e. fitchett
Tuesdays Feb 20 - Mar 27, 2018
6:00-7:30 PM
Studio Grand, 3234 Grand Ave, Oakland

Groovement is a class about finding individual sense of groove and comfort within the container of a structured dance class focused on rhythm, musicality, and authentic expression. Instead of drawing from a particular movement vocabulary, dana shares the movement that comes most naturally to her, a hybrid reinvention of the diverse influences of her dance background: ballet, jazz, hip-hop, modern, traditional West African, tap, and—most influentially—club dancing. The eclectic soundtrack spans Afro/soulful house music, hip-hop and R&B, dancehall, jazz, and more! The goal of Groove(ment) is to get liberated through movement rather than feel oppressed by how to dance “right.”

All levels welcome; comfort with music and movement required. Sweats or other danceable clothes and socks or barefoot suggested.

Video: dana Vid 1 dana 2 | | IG: @def_artinmotion

More 'For Black and Brown Bodies Dance' workshops TBA

$100-$200* per workshop series
(if you are able please consider paying more to accomodate those who can't)
-Few Youth/Student/Low-Income Scholarships Available
-Please email afrourbansociety@gmail.com to request.

ABOUT

dana e. fitchett
dana e. fitchett is a multidisciplinary artist, MFA candidate, and radical mixed-race Black woman exploring questions of identity reconciliation and healing from the impacts of racism, capitalism, and colonialism by way of creative expression and reimagination of what's possible. Her main current outlet for this work is directing, choreographing, and performing with an all-Black woman dance collective based in Oakland.

Afro Urban Society
Afro Urban Society is a creative community committed to sustaining the resiliency, interconnection and unique artistic and cultural expressions and contributions of people of African descent in urban settings around the world. Through original and curated arts & event production, popular arts education and community engagement we exist to dispel the perception that all Africans have a single story. We create spaces for people of African descent all over the world to tell their own stories. We celebrate the reality that Africans are of many cultures and nations. Afro Urban Society is created and driven by our constituents, our context, history and identities. We are the community that we serve. For workshops, events, & various projects visit afrourbansociety.com