Sankofa Residency's CULMINATING PERFORMANCE

Come witness, dance, and play at the Culminating Performance of the Sankofa Residency! The Sankofa Residency is a multi-phase project that is both rooted in the history of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY, and an afro-futurist imagining of BedStuy moving forward. Taking the Ghanian concept of Sankofa-looking backwards in order to move forward-this project uses research, oral history, and collaborative imagining to facilitate a plan for residents, businesses, and stakeholders to emerge from COVID in a place of healing, thriving, and progress.

Come join us as we share our embodied research through an interactive, interdisciplinary dance performance.

Refreshments will be served.

Performers: Kendra J. Ross, Natasha Calixte, and Dani Criss the Artist

Directed By: Wema Ragophala

Creative Production by PMMDC

This work is presented as the culminating work of the 2022 Create Change BedStuy Artists in Residence of the Laundromat Project in partnership with Bailey's Cafe and Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance.

Kendra J. Ross is the

Artist Bio

Kendra J. Ross is a proud Detroit native working as a dancer, choreographer, facilitator, and community organizer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. As a dancer, Kendra has worked with Urban Bush Women, Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks, Ase Dance Theater Collective, Monstah Black/Motion Sickness, MBDance, Melanie Green, and as a guest artist with Oyu Oro. Kendra is currently a company member of Movement of the People Dance Company and Moving Spirits. Kendra’s choreographic work has been presented at Florida A&M University, in the off-Broadway show 7 Sins, and at Museu de Arte in Salvador, Brazil; Dixon Place; Ailey Citigroup Theater; and Actors Fund Theater. She has been an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Bates College, and The Neighborhood Project Through 651Arts. Kendra was a BAX Space Grantee and a Visiting Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Along with sharing her art worldwide, Kendra serves as the Founder/Director of STooPS, an outdoors-based community building event that uses art as a catalyst to strengthen ties between different entities in Bed-Stuy. STooPS’ Annual Art Crawl was honored as the Best Dance of 2020. Kendra is also a Facilitator with Urban Bush Women’s BOLD (Builders, Organizers, and Leaders Through Dance) network, a passionate teaching artist, and a certified Pilates instructor.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, 1368 Fulton St., Brooklyn, United States

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