PAMOJA: Repertory Performance Works (Friday Matinee 12/13)

PAMOJA – Swahili for “together” - shares the semester-long process of students working with visiting artists: South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Kia Smith and Synapse Arts’ Rachel Damon, and faculty member Darrell Jones on a shared bill with works by faculty members Bevara Anderson and Allen Desterhaft & Kelsa Rieger-Haywood.

Friday’s matinee performance opener features a new work created by Dance For Health research study participants from Central West Regional Senior Center under the direction of Professor Emerita Susan Imus.

Works by Rachel Damon, Darrell Jones and Kia Smith performed by:

Isabel Bastardo
Courtney Cooper
Kayla Hansen
Lola Jett-Beachley
Konnie Kakridas
Adrean Maxwell
Aly Owens
Lauren Payne
Sophia Peck
Jay Richardson
Autumn Risbrook
Carla Torres
Diamond Turner

Dance For Health Central West Regional Senior Center performers:

Jacqui Charette-Bassiri Rad
Irma Dobson
Sarah Evans
Allisa Fergusen
Margarita Guerrero
Daphne LeCesue
Linda Murdock
Babette Peyton
Darlene Pughsley
Kathy Ross
Martha Slaughter
Louritha Williams
Cleo Wright

Banner image above: pictured (left to right) Diamond Turner and Courtney Cooper from Groundswell by Dardi McGinley-Gallivan & Pamela McNeil; photo by William Frederking, for the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago.

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