Urban Bush Women BOLD Collab Lab Performance

The opening presentation of the Young Dancers Workshop will feature a lecture-demonstration by Urban Bush Women BOLD (Builders, Organizers & Leaders through Dance), including a special Collab Lab performance by the Dance Theatre of Santa Fe and the University of Florida dance program.

The concert will feature a Collab Lab between UF and Santa Fe Students, as well as three Urban Bush Women Company Members! It will take place at Santa Fe College.

UBW combines revolutionary performance, deep-healing community engagement, and ancestral knowledge from the African diaspora into a cultural force that is urgent, forward-looking, and essential.

For the last four decades, Urban Bush Women has defied expectations and easy categorization with its bold, narrative storytelling. The very bodies of the seven founding members of UBW – Black women of various shapes and sizes – challenged and changed the landscape of who could be seen on stage as a dancer. The subject matter of the work placed the stories of such women, historically overlooked and undervalued in America, front and center stage.