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A spirited dash through Black music history in 'Following the Road to Ose Tura' - 48 hills Last weekend at Dance Mission, Adia Tamar Whitaker and Àṣẹ Dance Theater connected African villages to US streets.

3 WEEKENDS of cultural engagement! JOIN US on SUNDAY, AUGUST 24TH & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST for artist dialogues and FREE dance workshops!

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Fall 2024 registration for Dance Mission’s Grrrl Brigade and Youth Program is now OPEN. Have you signed up yet?! Classes fill up quickly. Got❓s? Email [email protected] or [email protected].

Brazilian with and is BACK at Dance Mission starting this Wednesday! See folks at 8pm.

Here we go!!!

Next Sat! Aug 24 at 7pm at Dance Mission Theater

and Dance Mission present
SORRY I MISSED YOUR SHOW

This series features informal and intimate conversations using archival media to reflect on past performances by Bay Area artists that have left a lasting impact on our performance community. Often, artists and fans find themselves saying, “Sorry I missed your show!” This series aims to revive those memorable performances, capturing their political and artistic significance from a specific era, space, and time.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity for an intimate conversation with Joanna Haigood as she reflects on her seminal work, Invisible Wings.

Invisible Wings (1998)

This powerful site-specific work was created by choreographer Joanna Haigood, artistic director of Zaccho Dance Theatre, during several Jacob’s Pillow residencies in Massachusetts, inspired by the Pillow site’s history as a stop on the Underground Railroad for enslaved people escaping to freedom. Haigood works often involve in-depth research into the background and character of historic sites. Her collaborators on Invisible Wings included composer/arranger Linda Tillery and composer/sound designer Lauren Weinger. Storyteller Diane Ferlatte.

And here are the offering for Weekend 2 of the World Arts West Festival happening at Dance Mission Sept 1!

Check out these great offerings as part of the World Arts West Festival happening at Dance Mission next week!!

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Thanks, San Francisco Chronicle for including Adia Tamar Whitakers Following the Road to Ose Tura's in the list of arts events celebrating SF baddies!!

Live out your ‘Brat Summer’ with arts events celebrating Bay Area baddies 18 female-forward dance, drag and arts events in the Bay Area from women who lead like a boss

Thanks, San Francisco Chronicle for including Adia Tamar Whitalers Following the Road to Ose Tura's in the list of arts events celebrating SF baddies!!

Live out your ‘Brat Summer’ with arts events celebrating Bay Area baddies 18 female-forward dance, drag and arts events in the Bay Area from women who lead like a boss

Jr. Grrrl Brigade and Grrrl Brigade has open slots for dancers!
Join us this fall and winter for our Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie! ❄️💕

Auditions Monday, Sept 9th!
Registration begins August 19th at 10am.

Email Fredrika at [email protected]

Today is the last day to snag those early bird tix for Raíces et Résistance. Grab ‘em! -> DanceMissionTheater . org

🍁 Youth Fall classes Begin Sept 9th!🍁
Registration begins August 19th at 10 am!
Classes Do fill up FAST! Don’t miss out!
FINANCIAL AID AVAILABLE 🔥🔥🔥

Registration Questions?
Email Fredrika at [email protected]

Early bird tickets are available through Aug 12! Grab yours!

Liberation 3.O is here!!

There are two available tracks. If you are interested in the Intensive track, please fill out the google form application (dancemissiontheater.org) in preparation for the Sept 14 audition!

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The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival is back at Dance Mission Theater this Friday-Sunday! Tickets can be reserved at DanceMissionTheater.org.

See you there!!

has been working crazy hard in preparation for Following the Road to Ose Tura, which runs Aug 15-18 at India Basin, Sales Force, and Dance Mission. Info at DanceMissionTheater.org.
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Halima Marshall teaches Afro-Haitian, tomorrow, Saturday at 1:30pm as part of “Haitian First Saturdays.” See you there!!

Early bird tickets are out now!

Dance Mission Theater’s Liberation Academy presents
Arenas Dance Company and Duniya Dance and Drum Company in
Raíces et Résistance
October 11-20, 204 at Dance Mission Theater
Fri-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON-SALE THROUGH AUG 12 (link in bio)

Directed by Susana Arenas Pedroso and Bongo Sidibe, with dancers and musicians from Arenas Dance and Duniya Dance and Drum Companies,“Raíces et Résistance” (or “Roots and Resistance” in Spanish/French) explores the vibrant, layered, and largely unknown social-political relationship between Guinea, West Africa and Cuba, forged by the transatlantic slave trade as well as the post-colonial cultural exchange that began in the 60s. Bringing together their cultural expertises, their passion, their senses of joy and justice, Pedroso and Sidibe have created a unique performance built on storytelling and cultural collaboration. “Raices et Résistance” embodies the past as well as the present, a story of Black people defining themselves through dance and music, during and after the traumas of slavery and Neo-colonization.

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HAITIAN FOLKLORIC (1st Saturdays) are BACK! Join HALIMA MARSHALL this SATURDAY, AUGUST 3RD from 1:30 PM - 3 PM! Halima is a longtime member of

REGISTER HERE: https://dancemissiontheater.org/workshops/

Get ready!!! is going to be back in the Bay and teaching a FREE Haitian Dance Workshop followed by a talk at Dance Mission. THIS Sunday, 1-4pm. Sign up at DanceMissionTheater.org. Present by Dance Mission’s Liberation Academy and in preparation for her show, Following the Road to Ose Tura.

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Dance Mission Theater presents Adia Tamar Whitaker’s
“Following the Road to Ose Tura” Aug 15-18, 2024 at various location throughout San Francisco.

Every child must go and come….

On August 6, 2020, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson a Brooklyn native, Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, scholar, educator, folklorist, and beloved member of Àṣẹ Dance Theater transitioned into the ancestral realm. Before she made her transition, she created the beginning of a dance film called The Road to Ose Tura. As Efeya got closer to transitioning, she sent Whitaker and dance family members videos of the movement she was dreaming into life and charged them with the task of finishing the film, as she was able to complete it in her human form.

Adia Tamar Whitaker’s Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura. It is the landing pad for Whitaker’s rumination’s on facing her own mortality and the immortality of her friend. It is the container of Adia’s reflections while realizing Efeya’s films, navigating grief, loss, survivor’s guilt, and the memories of the inequities Adia and Efeya experienced while interacting with healthcare system live.

Following The Road to Ose Tura isa four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker’s choreography, including film projections of Sampson’s work. It is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30 minute performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the evening length finale.

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See folks Friday at 7pm!

Catch original works choreographed and performed by the as the culmination of the two-week Grrrl Brigade Summer Intensive.

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Dance Mission Theater’s Liberation Academy presents
Following the Road to Ose Tura
Aug 15-18, 2024 at various location throughout San Francisco.

A ritual performance experience featuring the work of Efeya Sampson, Adia Tamar Whitaker, and Àṣẹ Dance Theater.

“Every child must go and come….”

Adia Tamar Whitaker’s Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began. Following The Road to Ose Tura is a four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker’s choreography, including film projections of Sampson’s work.Following the Road to Ose Tura is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30 minute performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the entire 90 minute work as the evening length finale.

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Don’t miss this one-time special SALSATÓN class with WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 from 8p-9:30p!