ABOUT THE EVENT

Presented in partnership with BlackLight, the BlackLight Intensive offers a day of free workshops led by an incredible roster of practitioners at the intersection of creative reverence, subversion and stunning bravery. Join for all, some or one workshop, including a Chat and Chew conversational lunch in the company of your fellow dancers.

This year’s Teaching Artists include Mx Oops, Jason A. Rodriguez, Ronya-Lee Anderson, Project ChArma, chitra.MOVES, The Haus of Glitter, Jamison Curcio & Shanice Mason and London-based hip hop theater company Far From the Norm.

Participation is free, but registration is required.

SCHEDULE

• 9-11AM | Opening Circle with Ronya-Lee Anderson and Hip-Hop/Contemporary Repertory with Far From The Norm
• 11:15AM-12:30PM | Choose one of the following workshops:
  • New Way Vogue with Jason A. Rodriguez
  • (QUEER) AFRO-LATINX DANCE: AN EMBODIED HISTORY with The Haus of Glitter
• 12:30-1:30PM | Chat and Chew Lunch (Included with Registration)
• 1:30-3PM | Choose one of the following workshops:
  • Process & Play with Shanice Mason & Jamison Curcio (Please note: Though open to all, this workshop is an intentional space for Black women and femme participation and collaboration)
  • Mind Training on the Dance Floor with MX Oops
• 3:15-4:30PM | Choose one of the following workshops:
  • Floorwork with Project ChArma
  • Bridging Stories: Indian Classical Dance & Hip Hop with Chitra Subramanian

ABOUT BLACKLIGHT

BlackLight ignites daring innovation that reveals the creativity and necessity of the DMV dance ecosystem. Through a suite of year-round iterative and communally-imagined programming, we center Black, Indigenous, Artists of Color and LGBTQIA++ folx through experimental performance, interdisciplinary scholarship, a robust mentorship program for students and emerging artists, models of shared leadership and community caretaking, workshops, creative residencies, creative writing and other high-touch activations that bring students, professionals, and community stakeholders together.

The theme for BlackLight 2024-25 is State of Our Light in which we will shed, shimmer, refract and illuminate the grand challenges faced by BIPOC/ LGBTQIA++ Millennial/Gen Z communities by considering what they’ve shouldered from the past, what they will build for the future, and how, when they step over their front door thresholds, they define home.

FUNDING

This event is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.