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but also the transformative work of a local Women of Color Dance Coalition: WDAC-DMV!
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TIDES reimagined by Project ChArma will be live streamed on the Dance Place website on July 25th @6:30 PM EST and re-broadcasted on Facebook Live on July 26th @6:30 PM EST. TIDES interrogates legacy and how one stays connected to ancestral knowledge in the face of generations of grief and trauma. The theme of water as a passageway and vehicle for movement of the African diaspora brings together collaborators to create a distanced site for resistance, renewal, and rebirth. We are so excited that TIDES is part of the "Free Form" no-cost summer programming series. We thank Dance Place for continuing to make opportunities for dance not only possible, but accessible to all during these unprecedented times.
Please consider making a donation to support this new virtual adaptation of TIDES at Dance Place! Your donation will subsidize the incredible performance and design-based artists involved in this work. Project ChArma is also designating a portion of collected proceeds to benefit the WDAC-DMV, a local collaborative coalition of Women Dance Artists of Color in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. Established in 2017 in-partnership with Dance Place, a group of local self-identifying women of color dancers created the WDAC-DMV to strengthen a local network of practitioners of women dance/movement artists by increasing opportunities and access to liberated spaces for our shared organizing, community-building, creative-play, and dance-making.
LegacyWDAC preserves and builds upon the legacy and history of Women Dance Artists of Color in the DMV as an international, multi-cultural dance-hub by addressing issues that affect our communities.
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LearningAs keepers of modern griot traditions, dance-making is as a valuable and accessible tool for sharing knowledge/experience while increasing dialogue, transformation, and empathy through somatic perceptions, observations, and investigations.
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leadershipThe coalition builds equity from within by creating mutually supportive spaces to bear witness, to open possibilities for ease and healing, to foster social bonds, and for collective problem-solving.
WDAC-DMV actively rebukes systems of white-hetero-patriarchy in all forms, including being beholden to metrics-based outcomes and performative measures of “success.” |
To connect with our community in the midst of isolation. To show and share black girl joy.
To honor our ancestors, the ones who made it & the ones who didn't.
tides reimagined collaboratorsMatt Reeves (media design, Broadcaster & Live Video DJ)
@orangegrovedance Jared Porter (intro video design) @kojakunbound Dance Place DC @danceplacedc Women Dance Artists of Color (WDAC) wdacdmv@gmail.com |
Tides CastTulani Ahmed @tulanijanae Michelle Appiah @jsjnjjv Sandra Bazubwabo @dapper.daniella Amma Bempa Brandi Bertie @brandi211_ NyQwayah Brown Merissa Collins @meri_kashi24 |
Miejo Dambita @miejo.audrey Georgina Gabbidon @ms.sapphir3 Sheanice Hazen @shea_marie99 Paetyn Lewis @paepae__ Tomi Okanlawon @ogtomisin Nneka Onyima @nneknnek_ Asia Wyatt @yesthecontinent Selyse @seityselyse |
TIDES 2019 premier
Images by Thai Nguyen.
Costume Design: Channing Tucker
Lighting Design: Lauren Gallup
Video Design: Jeremy Bennett
Sound Design: Veronica J. Lancaster
Scenic Coordinator: Katie Sullivan
Images by Thai Nguyen.
Costume Design: Channing Tucker
Lighting Design: Lauren Gallup
Video Design: Jeremy Bennett
Sound Design: Veronica J. Lancaster
Scenic Coordinator: Katie Sullivan
