Choreographers Sean Dorsey, Patrick Makuakāne, and Prumsodun Ok amplify what tradition bearing means for an evolving dance field.
Choreographers Sean Dorsey, Patrick Makuakāne, and Prumsodun Ok amplify what tradition bearing means for an evolving dance field.
Holly Bass, Deneane Richburg and Paloma McGregor mine personal stories to convey the complexity of the Black diaspora with choreography that calls us to listen.
Dancemakers Naomi Goldberg Haas, Allison Orr and Pamela Quinn blur lines between abstract dance and socially engaged creative practice, bringing dance to various populations.
Vanessa Sanchez, Danys “La Mora” Pérez, and Ana María Alvarez root their dances in the rhythms of the African Diaspora.
Immigrant artists are culture-bearers. They dedicate their lives to teaching and creating works of significant artistic and cultural value while building consequential communities in their adopted country.
Otherness is pernicious in the dance world. Three artists with indigenous or immigrant perspectives embrace, push against and integrate their identities with social consciousness.
In the Disability Arts Movement, a growing field of artists produce exciting and probing work, among them are Atlanta's Laurel Lawson and San Francisco Bay Area's Antoine Hunter.
These DFA artists engage in revolutionary performance work in the Black tradition — “Radical Black Performance” that interrogates the Black experience, past, present and future.