Come explore the ways dances of the divine spirits of the African Diaspora of the Caribbean can inform the essence and personality of contemporary movement. This fusion contemporary folklore class will use traditional folklore movements that represent varying themes such as play, passageways, flow, beauty and strength as a foundation to color and inform a modern dance combination. The class will begin with a gentle warm up that includes body articulations, isolations and flow to prepare the body to move. Next, students will learn traditional folkloric movement taught at a pace dictated by students with a number of variations offered to accommodate varying mobility levels. The folkloric movements will be the base for the modern dance combination. The class will finish with light stretching to allow all the work to settle in. All ages and mobility levels welcome.  

Kendra J. Bostock is a dancer, choreographer, and community organizer from Detroit, MI who now lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY. As a performer, Kendra has traveled the world dancing for Urban Bush Women, DJ Kid Koala, MBDance, Andrea E. Woods/Soulouworks, Monstah Black, Moving Spirits Dance Company, Oyu Oro, Ase Dance Theater Collective and Movement of the People Dance Company. Her work has been featured as an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Studios for Dance and The Neighborhood Project by 651Arts, BAX Space Grantee, Visiting Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Dixon Place, Actors Fund Theater, Florida A&M University and Museu de Arte in Bahia, Brazil. Kendra was the 2022 BedStuy Create Change Artist in Residence with the Laundromat Project and a current Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.  Kendra is the Founder/Director of a BedStuy based art and community building platform called STooPS. www.thekendrajbostock.com