WE ARE ACCEPTING DONATIONS!
Your donation not only supports Project ChArma,
but also the transformative work of a local Women of Color Dance Coalition: WDAC-DMV!
Help us reach our goal of $5000! Every donation counts!
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.
Women Dance Artists of Color (WDAC)
contact them @ wdacdmv@gmail.com
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.
Women Dance Artists of Color (WDAC)
contact them @ wdacdmv@gmail.com
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.” |
UPDATE
(from the WDAC listserv! Email wdacdmv@gmail.com to add your name & stay in the loop!)
"We’re delighted to share that the International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. (IABD) is now the official Fiscal Sponsor of WDAC-DMV! Ms. Carol Foster, who works with IABD on their Special Projects Team, has been an active member of our collective since its inception in 2017. Upon finalizing the paperwork, IABD’s President/CEO, Ms. Denise Saunders Thompson, stated that she’s thrilled for IABD to deepen their connection to the local dance community through this partnership with WDAC-DMV.
As Fiscal Sponsor, IABD will support our fundraising efforts by collecting contributions, maintaining transparent bookkeeping, and processing fund disbursement, upon request. As a non-profit tax-exempt arts service organization, all contributions to WDAC-DMV via IABD’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law. Another member-benefit of this fabulous partnership: WDAC-DMV has access to IABD’s extensive network for promoting fundraising drives and other projects. Thank you to Ms. Carol, Ms. Denise, and the IABD Staff/Board!
Our first fundraising initiative is already in-progress (say what?!? keep reading!) in-partnership with choreographer, Project ChArma co-founder, and WDAC-DMV collaborator, Ama Law! Next weekend, as part of Dance Place’s no-cost “Free Form” summer programming series, Project ChArma will be presenting their re-imagined, evening-length work, TIDES. Ama and her team have generously decided to designate a portion of the donations that they receive for this presentation to WDAC-DMV! The performance 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.
Please share the above link far-and-wide, encourage your folks to donate, and tune-in to watch! Funds will be shared between the amazing Black/WOC-led cast of TIDES and WDAC-DMV. Ama believes in the necessity of having and supporting a collective like WDAC-DMV - created in, for, and by our community - so that we may resource ourselves toward fully-realized independence and liberation."
(from the WDAC listserv! Email wdacdmv@gmail.com to add your name & stay in the loop!)
"We’re delighted to share that the International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. (IABD) is now the official Fiscal Sponsor of WDAC-DMV! Ms. Carol Foster, who works with IABD on their Special Projects Team, has been an active member of our collective since its inception in 2017. Upon finalizing the paperwork, IABD’s President/CEO, Ms. Denise Saunders Thompson, stated that she’s thrilled for IABD to deepen their connection to the local dance community through this partnership with WDAC-DMV.
As Fiscal Sponsor, IABD will support our fundraising efforts by collecting contributions, maintaining transparent bookkeeping, and processing fund disbursement, upon request. As a non-profit tax-exempt arts service organization, all contributions to WDAC-DMV via IABD’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law. Another member-benefit of this fabulous partnership: WDAC-DMV has access to IABD’s extensive network for promoting fundraising drives and other projects. Thank you to Ms. Carol, Ms. Denise, and the IABD Staff/Board!
Our first fundraising initiative is already in-progress (say what?!? keep reading!) in-partnership with choreographer, Project ChArma co-founder, and WDAC-DMV collaborator, Ama Law! Next weekend, as part of Dance Place’s no-cost “Free Form” summer programming series, Project ChArma will be presenting their re-imagined, evening-length work, TIDES. Ama and her team have generously decided to designate a portion of the donations that they receive for this presentation to WDAC-DMV! The performance 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.
Please share the above link far-and-wide, encourage your folks to donate, and tune-in to watch! Funds will be shared between the amazing Black/WOC-led cast of TIDES and WDAC-DMV. Ama believes in the necessity of having and supporting a collective like WDAC-DMV - created in, for, and by our community - so that we may resource ourselves toward fully-realized independence and liberation."
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.
