“Breathing New Legacies Forward” is a workshop led by Diane Roberts, Founding Artistic Director of Arrivals Legacy Project. This workshop, hosted by Undercurrent Creations, is presented in conjunction with the world premiere of Nikki Shaffeeullah’s A Poem for Rabia, which was in part developed through Arrivals Legacy Project processes.
Michelle Mohammed, Nikki Shaffeeullah, and Adele Noronha performing A Poem For Rabia. Photo by Cylla Von Tiedemann.
Testimonials from this workshop:
“As a dancer, as an embodied person, as someone who is currently going through the loss of two of my close relatives, the workshop allowed me to explore that grief safely and allowed me to remember that I am holding my loved ones within me, in my body. Many thanks.”
– Sadie Epstein-Fine
“Thank you for this important workshop. I felt a sense of safety and care throughout as Diane Roberts led us so confidently and lovingly into our bodies. Throughout the workshop, there was permission, and a solidarity with the other participants, to step into my unknowns – my hard things. As I moved and imagined the lost stories of my ancestors, there were flashes of knowing. Flickers of light and revelation, transforming the silence experienced down generations into something else. An un-silencing through my body – reclaiming the existence of my ancestors, and of me. It was an awareness that everything I need has already been given, and this workshop was a learning, in how and where, to look.”
– Jenny Hwang
