KQED ‘If Cites Could Dance’ series featuring Dancing Earth Company Members, Anne Pesata & Raven Bright

‘If Cites Could Dance’

KQED

featuring Company Stars

Anne Pesata & Raven Bright

A moment of WOW as Dancing Earth makes national media presence! Please enjoy  this video from KQED ‘If Cites Could Dance’ series featuring Dancing Earth company members, Anne Pesata & Raven Bright.

“Step into the shoes of dancers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their city could dance. Performing on street corners and other unconventional settings, each episode tells an intimate, personal story about the artists and their deep-rooted connections to community.”

Albuquerque's thriving hip-hop and freestyle dance scene is influenced by Indigenous dancers from many tribes, Pueblos and other communities. A strong sense ...

Forget the stage, the spotlights and the velvet curtain. The choreographers and performers at the center of KQED’s new video series, "If Cities Could Dance," don’t need any of the above. Give them the streets of Oakland, the corners of Detroit, the plazas of San Jose and the parades of New Orleans, and they’ll reflect their urban surroundings in their graceful, powerful movements. Each episode in the series -- running every Tuesday from April 10 to May 28 -- captures the dancers’ personal stories and their deep-rooted relationships to their community. Fighting cultural erasure, gentrification and the silencing of their collective voices, they claim their space with extended arms, high kicks and joyful spins. In open-air markets and on empty train tracks, they twirl and pop, vogue and cartwheel, all in the celebration of dance styles unique to San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Portland. Join us as we travel across the country, meeting the artists who dare to imagine what it would look like if their cities could dance.

Original Article: “Dancing an Indigenous Future: Native American Hip-Hop and Freestyle in Albuquerque”
by: Shaandiin Tome, Charlotte Buchen Khadra, June 23, 2020