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.