...triple-threat performers who dance, sing and act with a sometimes searing sense of truthfulness.

—The New York Times

In honor of Urban Bush Women’s 40th Anniversary, Legacy + Lineage + Liberation celebrates the power of Women(+) in an evening of new and classic works that transcend genres and amplify the voices of Women(+) of color.

This dynamic program features a new work by Co-Artistic Directors Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis, iconic works by Founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Each of these works gives multiple dimensions of life that resonate in this time of reflection around equity and justice, and that lift up Black lives in inspiring ways. Experience UBW’s great sense of musicality, and reflection inside of empathy and joy, and leave the theater energized and inspired. Works include but are not limited to:

• Give Your Hands to Struggle lyrically honors leaders from the Civil Rights era;

• Women’s Resistance fuses power and grace in a call to collective action around truths that bind us all;

• I Don’t Know, but I Been Told, If You Keep on Dancin’ You Never Grow Old is an energetic mash-up of different dance forms that came out of Black neighborhoods and features a live drummer.

• Haint Blu: Episode 1 - Listenin’ and Dreamin’: Do You Hear Me Now? is a dance-theater work seeped in memory and magic using performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest.

These works have been unearthed, given new vision and strength, and are being sent forward to a new generation! In this dynamic evening, audiences are offered UBW’s great sense of musicality, and reflection inside of empathy and joy, and a gracious invitation to respond to what they’re experiencing--and to leave the theater energized and inspired.