Pan Afro-Urban Dance Theater Youth Showcase

A Pan-African Youth Dance Theater performance experience Featuring members of Feline Finesse, Gbedu Town Radio, Afro Culture Kids and more
About this Event

The Youth Dance-Theater Intensive with Gbedu Town Radio offers young dancers a transformative journey into the world of performing arts. Led by experienced instructors, participants will engage in theater, singing, dancing, and many other workshops. All work will culminate in an end-of-session showcase open to the public.

2026 provides training and exposure for all levels of experience to Dance, Theater, Spoken Word, Song writing, Singing, Craft, Costuming, Improvisation, Technique and Performance in African & African Diaspora forms including traditional Igbo, Shona, Hip Hop and other Pan Afro-Urban genres.

Facilitators: Kanukai Chigamba, KeidraOnStage, Nkeiruka Oruche & More.

This Intensive is part of Nkeiruka Oruche’s ‘Obi gbawara’m//My Heart Shattered or What happens after I die?’ (OGB) researching and documenting traditions of death and grief in Igbo culture, and the African diaspora. OGB was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Afro Urban Society is an exuberant network of brilliant artists and culture workers dedicated to celebrating the unique expressions of Urban Africans through programs, performances, and productions.

Gbedu Town Radio Over-articulated and barely translated, Gbedu Town Radio tells dynamic stories for the culture. Led by Artistic Director, Nkeiruka Oruche, and featuring a dynamic group of performers, GTR explores social and political themes through Pan Afro-Urban music and dance including Afrobeats, Dancehall, Coupé-Décalé & varieties of Hip hop.

Feline Finesse Dance Company, est 2014, is a youth sisterhood stemming from the origins of the Bayview-Hunters Point community, in San Francisco. Our mission is to create a haven for all young ladies to freely, creatively, and artistically express themselves through dance while empowering them to reach their full potential, goals, and dreams. We self-identify thru genres of Hip-hop and West African; but most importantly, we philosophize a sisterhood of love and self-respect. We not only teach choreography, but we educate our young ladies in dance fundamentals, technique and overall etiquette.​