About the Event
As part of the YoungArts Fall Residency, artist-in-residence Nina Osoria Ahmadi (2019 Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) is hosting a dance workshop, CHANGO (dance like a boy, dance like a girl). This workshop invites participants to explore movement as a language of self-making, inspired by the Yoruba Orisha (deity) Chango. Chango’s complex identity and duality—embodying both masculinity and femininity, strength and sensuality—will guide participants as they examine how movement can express and challenge gendered expectations. Through freestyle movement inspired by Afro-Cuban dance styles like salsa, rumba and guaguancó, participants will embody Chango’s fluidity as a medium for their own self-expression.
Workshop capacity is limited. To RSVP, please email osoriaanina@gmail.com.