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Healing Intimacy: documentation by RAPT Productions
MoAD hosts the Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now
Celebrating 20 years of Black Arts & Culture
Spirit of Sankofa: Bridging the Legacy of Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century (BCM) & Black Choreographers Festival (BCF)
Healing Intimacy - a special performance event with different iterations at 12pm, 2pm & 4pm
Choreographers/collaborators Dazaun Soleyn and Algin “Align” Sterling create and perform an engaging structured movement & music improvisation in response to the Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy exhibition as well as deepen their seminal work Healing Intimacy, into a new more immersive piece that activates the MoAD gallery spaces – creating a new environment expressing healing, home, community, black empowerment, and love.
A different iteration of the performance for each showtime. See one or come to see all three!
Register for each performance here: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
About the Artists
Dazaun Soleyn
With an intention to create art that aims to illuminate the human soul, Dazaun Soleyn (he/she/they)(@dazaun_s), has presented work in the Bay Area since 2013. He received a BFA in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of South Florida and continued his dance education at the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program.
Recently, Dazaun graduated from California College of the Arts with a Masters in Architecture (MArch). Dazaun is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, a Gyrotonic Instructor, Reiki Master and Apprentice Herbalists. His mediums include dance, architecture, sculpture and interactive installations. https://dazaunsoleyn.org/home
Algin "Align" Sterling
Algin (DJ Align) Ford Sterling (@alginaligns) is a DJ, dancer, producer and curator from San Francisco. Algin has trained, performed and traveled within various styles / companies and artists on both the East & West coast and has a heavy focus on community based projects. Algin was the founder & co-director of his own company ‘UFO Movement’ in the Bay Area for 4 years before migrating with that company to NYC.
Hehas performed at The Guggenheim & the Joyce Theatre in NYC with company Les Ballet Afrik in styles West African, Afrobeat, House & Vogue where he also served as the Musical Director for the company the last 5 years.He also performed with Bill T Jones, trained in Modern Dance and Contemporary with Nina Haft at CSUEB and Hip Hop with Patrick Cruz of ‘The Company’ where he contributed choreography for many years.
Algin's purpose as an artist is to serve as an advocate for black & brown youth and to be a reflection for his community.
Join us on the night before, Friday, February 7 from 7-8:30pm as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now with a panel discussion, Throwback to the Future: Dance Artists in Dialogue, featuring two generations of Black Choreographers in dialogue about what it means to be Black in the Bay Area dance scene then and now.
This program is presented in conjunction with Thrive@MoAD, a Community Free Day sponsored by Kaiser Permanente
BCF’s 20th Anniversary made possible through the support of SFAC’s Dream Keeper Initiative, SFAC CEI, Zellerbach Family Foundation; community partners: MoAD, SFPL, MSP Galleries, Dance Mission Theater, SADC. Presented & Curated by AAAPAC and K*Star*Productions.
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