see. think. dance.

SAT MAY 3
Urban Art Sessions

photo by: Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

Embodying the landscape through motion, music, + come what may.

2PM: Afro House Hop Class with Soul Nubian - $5

With roots in underground dance culture, Afro-House-Hop builds on the stylistic forms of Pan-African dance, the soul of deep House and the momentum of Hip-Hop. This unique blend of movement will explore the foundations of House dance and include a choreographed combination to help you expand your movement vocabulary.

Rashad aka Soul Nubian is an urban dance artist, choreographer, and creative facilitator who has been a part of urban dance culture on the west coast for 12 years. Rashad has worked with the Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, preformed in The Rennie Harris Illdelph Festival and was an Emerging Artist in the Black Choreographers Festival 2005. Rashad is the recipient of the 2008 scholarship of study with Moving on Center's Participatory Arts and Somatic Research Program where he is studying the integration of somatics and urban dance.

3PM: Breakbeat/Funk/Hip-Hop Class with Mis.Little of the Feelmo Rocks Crew (SF/NYC) - $5 (JUST ADDED!)

In 2002, Mis. Little founded Feelmo Rocks Crew (FRC) and the legacy of the Fillmore Girlz was reborn. FRC stands for what it means. Feeling more positive vibes and representing the true artform of Street dancing. Internationally Street dancing is the most popular movement commercially and underground. Mis. Little has been a leader in several communities nationally. Spreading the Legacy of the Fillmore district Dance Community. She has been successful in leading After School Programs, private schools, outdoor festivals and events nationally. Spreading the education and knowledge of how to turn street art into jobs and outlets for the youth. FRC has completed workshops instructed by the most popular pioneers of HipHop. The workshops include Business/Marketing, Dance, Vocal Training, and the production of Hip Hop. After receiving rights of passage from Pioneers and Elders of the Arts, Frc decided to take hip hop to others levels of Street Art Performance through collaboration with groups such as Loco Bloco.org, Bayonics.com, The Architeckz.com, just to name a few. Since 2002 FRC has solidified the connection of artists to their histories as well as promoting positive roles of women in Hip Hop culture. The legacy continues as FRC passes down the skills to the youth of the future so that they too, will succeed in the dream of being International performing artists.

7:30PM: Video Installation + Performance - $12-$15 suggested donation

Urban Art Sessions invites you to expand into the spirit of the spontaneous moment of creation that drives performance from under – skin + under -- ground. Over the course of one day into one evening YOU become the medium + the message, the audience + the performer.

Urban Art Sessions is the compression of daily experience re-birthed as movement + nurtured through sound. Poet + MC Davu Ayomi of Fly Zombi takes liberties with rhythm + rhyme, excavating textual histories + pushing them to bear the joy + weight of modern time. Performance artist Rashad aka Soul Nubian personifies the urbanite at his highest level, calling forth dance as ancient movement + social connector. The journey continues with TeN of the fLo-Ology dance collective, Mis.Little of the Feelmo Rocks Crew (SF/NYC) + a dance cipher with YOU supported by the genius sounds of DJ Emancipacion (OAK/CHI/EG). All artists participating in the urban art community are welcome in this rhythmic mosaic intertwined with the love for freestyle.

*presented by see. think. dance. & the Red Poppy Art House

SUN MAY 4
The Intimacy Project™
Exploring Intimacy, Exploring Ourselves

photo by: Bethanie Hines

Unraveling the threads that keep us together + hold us apart

2PM: Exploring Authenticity with Beandrea Davis, CYT - $5

What holds you back from expressing how you really feel? Together in a compassionate + safe space we'll dip our feet in the vast ocean of Authenticity, exploring how the tools of movement, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and writing as a meditative practice can support us in keeping it real with ourselves and others. Workshop is for those who are interested in stretching outside their comfort zones while still honoring inner limits. Please bring a journal and pen and and open mind.

Beandrea is thrilled to to be a healing artist who draws upon the inner reservoir of body, mind, and heart to channel words, movement, and sound. A yoga teacher, dancer, Reiki practitioner, collage artist, meditator, and writer, she celebrates the seamlessness of healing and creative expression. Right now the tool of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is rocking her world, giving her new access to being in satisfying relationship with self and other as she undergoes extensive teacher training in NVC.

4PM: engage more fully... hue-man acts of intimacy with khalil.anthony - $5

a khalil anthony workshop is an opportunity to engage more closely with the self and the soul. to be involved in the act of living more fully and finding that space of intimacy that is part of the whole, that engages all and knows well its own boundaries. k.anthony uses movement to push the boundaries of how we see our/selves and our/world.

"I was raised inside the dream of black boy genius." khalil.anthony peebles

I had to fight police officers in my workplace to realize what it meant to be an educator, an advocate for young people of color and a man. A black man in America has to fight all the time in order to stand on both of his feet as a man. I have to defend my existence every second that I have the blessing of living, and I am honored and blessed because of it.

I work with young people, who are actually very old and wise in their understanding of themselves and the world that we live. Their collective wisdom has formed my pedagogical relationship to the world. My life has been informed and transformed by their subtle, yet powerful genius. We are made whole because of this relationship. The divine duality inherent in student and teacher relationship has the potential to change our world.

7:30PM: Video Installation + Performance - $12-15

The Intimacy Project™ is the recognition that mainstream culture, crafted around + through us, may no longer support us as emotional individuals + communities. As afternoon transitions into evening, The Intimacy Project™ will be the dynamic result of how honest, how vulnerable we intend to be with ourselves + the world around us.

The Intimacy Project™, as performance, takes flight with collaged reflections in sound by DJ Fflood. The journey expands through the inspired movement + embraceable direction of dancer/choreographer/facilitator Sheena Johnson. Wordsmith Shantay Armstrong continues the expressive challenge by wrapping text around complex histories + the undulating present moment. As additional artists contribute to the dissolution of traditional audience-performer relationships, The Intimacy Project™ promises to be an introduction of a new paradigm.