COME HOME, COME DANCE Performance & Community Offerings

a new dance work performance that explores themes of migration, grief, healing, transition, transformation, love, & liberation
About this Event

In partnership with the Merced County Arts Council and the Multicultural Arts Center, and in collaboration with the Free Flow Dance Home Project, KrizaFlor (Heal the Hood Cart), and the SouthEast Asian Youth Alliance (SEAYA), "Come home, come dance" or "los tsev, los seev cev” (translated in Hmong) is a new dance work that brings together local Merced creatives, artists, and performers who are descendants of immigrants and refugees, queer and trans, Hmong, femme, and/or youth. This work consists of weekly rehearsals, creative residencies, a community workshop, and a culminating live performance event that includes pre and post show activities and free offerings for the community.

"Come home, come dance" engages the communities who reside on Native Yokuts Land and call Merced and the Central Valley home. This work asks: what happens to a people when they are displaced from their homelands, their communities, and their bodies? What happens to a people when their dances and movements have stopped, changed, and disappeared? How do they find their ways home? How do they find their ways to dance again? This work facilitates dialogue, cultivates hope, and inspires collective action that will help our communities feel more belonging, cared for, loved, and free in this present moment and into our futures.

Co-creatives/artists/performers include:

Christopher

Cristal

Daniel

Elena

Evelyn

Jiashee

KrizaFlor

Noel

Nova

Sophie

tsim+nuj

Yeva

This is a FREE community event. There are NO COSTS TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE. Please get and reserve your FREE tickets so that we can try our best to support you in joining us.

Concessions available to purchase before the show to support the MAC and Merced County Arts Council. Light foods and refreshments will be provided after the show including additional community offerings and activities.

For additional questions, comments, and accessibility needs please reach out to us by contacting [email protected] or our Instagram page @comehomecomedance