Alternate Title Dance Africa 2021, DanceAfrica Performance 2021

Production Language English

Country of Origin United States, Haiti

Description BAM's DanceAfrica—the nation’s largest African dance festival—continues its celebration with special Memorial Day weekend programs, including the world premiere of the evening-length dance film Vwa Zanset Yo: Y'ap Pale, N'ap Danse! "Ancestral Voices: They Speak... We Dance!" and live dance party; a public art installation A Return: Liberation as Power, featuring six Haitian visual artists’ meditation on liberation; and a special “for teens by teens” event Haiti In Full Scope—exploring the history, art, and culture of Haiti.

Identifier 2021s.00529

VenueVirtual/Online

choreographerFritzlyn “Fritz” Hector, Portsha T. Jefferson, Adia Tamar Whitaker­, Dieufel Lamisere

companyASE Dance Theatre Collective, HaitiDansco, Rara Tou Limen, The Fritzation Experience, BAM/The Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble at the Youth Arts Academy, DanceAfrica Spirit Walkers

costume designerBaba Haby Fashions, Habecca Appiah, Carolyn Meckha Cherry, Hopie Lyn Burrows

danceafrica elderBaba William Mathews, Mama Dr. Lynette White-Mathews, Mama Akua N. Ishangi, Baba Lee Abramson, Baba Obara Wali Rahman Ndiaye, Baba Yomi Awolowo, Mama Andara Koumba Rahman, Mama Dr. Doris Green, Mama Jacqueline Coban Martin, Mama Linda Evans, Mama Kumali Abramson, Esmeralda Simmons, Esq., Mama Denise Tima Fann Baker, Baba Nathaniel Boyd Hakika, Rakiah Eason, Mama Sandra Burton, Mama Aissatou Bey Bara, Amma McKenn, Mama Amma Oloriwaa! Bernard, Baba Neil C. Clarke, Mama Patricia Dye-Asante, Mama Peggy Alston, AmenRa Vaughn, Mama Carol Awolowo

dancerKendra Foster, Atibon Legba Nazaire, Yaaxche Whitaker-Rojas, André M. Zachery, Alexandra Jean Joseph, Persephone DaCosta, Maria Rivera, Jovan Clay, Lionnel St. Surin, Veleda Roehl, Rami Margron, Lamont Joseph, Kevin McEwen, Amah Assoumou, Joy Bell, Erin Bryce Holmes, Coco Killingsworth, Asali Johnson-Smith, Kendall Johnson Smith, Brian Polite, Fabienne Felix, Midline Richardson, Christ Maika Joachim, James Joseph, Job Joussance, Sergo Clossiny, Osmane Joseph, Castera Saintil, Dimitry Etienne, Fritzner Dauphin, Ronald Edouard, Kae-Lin Belgrave, Kenya Joy Gibson, Imani Nzingha Johnson, Clifton Brown, Fritzlyn “Fritz” Hector, Shola Roberts, Nabarreus Cross, Portsha T. Jefferson, Lakisha Ashley, Asatu Hall, Abeje Maolud-Sneed, Michelle Peacock Fagans, Sanie Brock, Valencia James, Halima Marshall, Yolande Sterling, Mikhaila Fendor, Sandrine Malary, Erykah Nadreau, Kourtney Charles, Jae Ponder, Jasmine Poole, Jerome Hunter, Shaka Zulu, Dyane Harvey, Ferrin Coleman, Maika Morin, Keith Tolbert, Cimone Graves, Maya Petty, Jude Evans, Thea Grier, Omari Contaste

makeup artistMaya Orli Cohen, Treina Alexander, Michelle Peacock Fagans, Yolande Sterling

musicianOkai, Jean Menesky Magloire, Sergo Decius, Desmond Howard, Jean Guy Rene, Guy de Chalus, Eliyahu Salaam, Luke Atwood Abiol, Portsha T. Jefferson, Miles Lassi, Kofi Osei Williams, Yao Ababio, Kweku Sumbry

photographerKendell Hinds, Tony Turner, Watson Balmyr, Louvensky Cantave, Ednal Mesadieu, Luke Atwood Abiol, Kamau Bilal

producerCharmaine Patricia Warren, David Anderson

production assistant/coordinatorTimothy Prolific Edwaujonte, Kae-Lin Belgrave, Micah Vassau

singerSheila Anozier, Goussy Célestin, Jean Louis Garcia, Danielle Casimir, Tossie Long, Lalin St. Juste

sound designerOrion Gordon, Sorthiorsh Rachielde Balmyr, David Lawson

videographer/editorNatasha Giliberti, Alex Munro, Junting Zhou, Herbeto Foreste, Wenderley Joseph, Catalin Stelian, Kofi Assane Opare, Miles Lassi, Richelle Blanks, Jae Ponder