MOPDC's 9th Annual Winter Intensive:
Virtual Manifestations
January 14 – January 16, 2023
All workshops $10
Full Intensive $75 = 5 workshops +
Dancing While Black: How We Build * Collective(s) Action +
What’s Left of Spring virtual sharing
Dates & Times: all times EST on Zoom
Saturday Jan. 14th:
10am-11:15am - Ballet Unraveled w/ Special Guest Courtney Henry
11:30am-12:45pm - Dancestrology w/ Special Guest J. Bouey
1:00pm-2:30pm - Dancing While Black: How We Build * Collective(s) Action panel discussion w/ Aimee Meredith Cox, Ebony Noelle Golden, Rashida Bumbray and Paloma McGregor*
Sunday Jan. 15th:
10am-11:15am - Soca w/ Special Guest Candace Thompson-Zachery
Monday Jan. 16th:
10am-11:15am - Creative Caribbean Movement w/ Kendra Ross
11:30am-12:45pm - Afro-Colombian Bullerengue w/ Melissa Escano
1:00pm-2:00pm - What’s Left of Spring virtual sharing*
* Full Intensive Only
MOPDC's weekend Winter Intensive offers dancers the opportunity to explore and connect with various dances of the African Diaspora, tools for creating socially conscious choreography, and experiential insight as to ways in which Dances of the African Diaspora are incorporated in Dance Theater.
Workshops - 3 days of rotating workshops in: Creative Caribbean Movement, Ballet Unraveled, Dancestrology, Afro-Colombian Bullerengue + Soca. Workshops led by MOPDC's Collaborating Company Members: Melissa Escano & Kendra Ross and Special Guests J. Bouey, Courtney Henry, and Candace Thompson-Zachery! CLICK HERE FOR WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOS
Full Intensive = 5 workshops + access to Dancing While Black: How We Build * Collective(s) Action + virtual sharing of MOPDC’s latest iteration of their work What’s Left of Spring.
Dancing While Black: How We Build * Collective(s) Action - part of Dancing While Black’s 10th Anniversary Season, this important and necessary conversation led by moderator Aimee Meredith Cox, will uplift the work of artists Ebony Noelle Golden, Rashida Bumbray and Paloma McGregor as cultural workers, organizers who are using movement building and using the body as a holding space for culture. Registration will be included in the Full Intensive package OR you may register for this event separately HERE.
What’s Left of Spring - Full Intensive participants will witness MOPDC’s latest iteration of their work-in-progress What’s Left of Spring, a collaborative afrofuturistic multidisciplinary immersive conversation on sociopolitical issues the US has faced and will continue to face if systemic oppression continues to be the norm. A science-fictionesque return to ritual, in the future when our current conditions have become myth, this work posed the question: for there to be change, must something be sacrificed?
MOPDC's Winter Intensive is for dancers and choreographers who are interested in embodying various dances of the African Diaspora as well as envisioning and creating evocative Dance Theater choreography that addresses sociocultural issues as a means to educate, inform and ignite dialogue.
COST + REGISTRATION:
**All payments & deposits are non-refundable. No exceptions.
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