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 BAY AREA Arts Education Residency Program 2024-2025

Woven into our history and our culture, we discover the legacy and power of Black body percussive dance in America. Students will join MOLODI, the cast members of ROOTS, on a journey tracing the past, present and future of Stepping and Body Percussion.

San Francisco/Bay Area Program Offerings Include:

  • School-wide assembly (up to 300 students)

  • Master Class Workshop class (up to 100 students)

  • Teacher Professional Development

  • Extended Residencies *custom to School Need

For more information, you are invited to email Sanseria.Murray@museumdance.org. 

Now Open For Registration: Fall semester, September 2 - October 30, 2024

Spring 2025 Semester registration will be available in September 2024

Please register by clicking the button below and completing the form. A non-refundable deposit of $500 is required upon registration. For more information on longer residencies, please contact Sanseria.Murray@museumdance.org

premiering in 2025:

roots

AN INTERACTIVE STORY TRACING THE HISTORY OF BLACK DANCE IN AMERICA, IN COLLABORATION WITH IMOD’S ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

With the support of the International Museum of Dance team, our artists-in-residence, Antwan Davis and Jason Nious, trace the creation and evolution of African-American Step through the lens of tradition, expression, musical trends, socio-political forces, and migration.

Audience members will be guided on an interactive journey, as IMOD’s artists offer their perspectives and experiences with Step dance — from West-African rhythmic ROOTS, through transformations in the American South in the mid-to-late 1800s, to current iterations. 

The exhibition will reveal the voices of these highlighted artists, their perspectives and experiences. The work will spotlight these specific dance styles and detail how invention, slavery, cultural appropriation, and popular trends changed their roles and forms through time.