Brooklyn born and bred vocalist and composer Tamar-kali is a 2nd generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina. Her 5-piece outfit enchants you with its melody, while delivering a swift kick to the gut with its incisive emotional core. Adia Tamar Whitaker, Artistic Director of Ase Dance Theatre Collective, has performed contemporary vernacular movement, modern dance, and Afro-Haitian dance in the U.S. and abroad for 16 years. Adia completed a BA at San Francisco State University, the Independent Studies Program at The Ailey School, was an Urban Bush Women Apprentice and a Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at FSU Choreographic Fellow. She received an Isadora Duncan Award for performance in “Ampey!” – a choreopoem she wrote, directed and choreographed – along with grants from the Puffin Foundation, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, and Jerome Foundation. Nathan Trice is the artistic director/founder of nathantrice/RITUALS project-by-project dance theater company based in New York City 1998. Trice and his company have toured throughout the United States, Bermuda, Aruba, Japan, Argentina and Hong Kong. Over the past fourteen years, the company has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious festivals and venues, including Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Festival, City Center’s Fall For Dance, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Judson Memorial Church’s (DADD) series, International Association of Blacks in Dance, Hiroshima City Museum, Aruba Arts Festival and the Hong Kong Hip Hop Festival.
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