Urban Bush Women (UBW) will launch its new Choreographic Center Producing Program (CCI 2.0) in April 2022.
Starting in January 2022, the Company reconnects with live audiences in a five-city national tour of its program, Legacy + Lineage + Liberation, featuring new work, Haint Blu (proscenium version), as well as the return of its dance-theater work, Hair & Other Stories.
On Tuesday, September 28th, 2021 the MacArthur Foundation announced a class of 25 fellows.
The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) announces the COLLECTIVE Cohort for the 2021 COHI | MOVE program. The twenty-five companies that comprise the cohort will receive a total of $41,000 over the next three years
On June 15th, 2021, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced $2.7 billion in donations to “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded.”
We at Alternate ROOTS, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Junebug Productions, and Urban Bush Women are deeply grateful to receive a portion of this gift alongside one another.
$2.74 billion donation to 286 organizations "Empowering Voices the World Needs to Hear.”
The Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) UCLA partnered with The Lapis Press to convert The Choreographers’ Scores: 2020, 26 handmade choreographer sketches, into fine art prints. CAP UCLA’s 2020-21 commission was conceived to bridge the financial gap for choreographers until dance is brought back to the stage. The images of these scores will be posted on CAP UCLA’s website and shared via social media over the course of the 2020-21 Season.
At Success Academy, they view black history as simply American history, and study it throughout the year. In elementary through high school, Success Academy ensures scholars explore history in a way that gives them a deep understanding that history is not a series of events led and narrated by white men, but is rather an ongoing and complex narrative of diverse experiences, perspectives, and voices.
2021 Artistry in Rhythm (A.I.R.) Dance Conference Honors Urban Bush Women and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Annual Symposium Honors the ground-breaking Urban Bush Women dance collective and its founding Artistic Director, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations Commit Unprecedented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations