Revival Walks at Tacony Creek Park with Lela Aisha Jones Olney Embrace Project
Saturday, October 31, 2020 9am-11:30am Saturday, November 28, 2020 9am-11:30am Saturday, November 28, 2020 3:30-6pm
Using our stories, creative play based in movement, and other art forms, take a reflective walk, facilitated by Dance Artist Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround, through the Tacony Creek Park/Watershed. Come closer to living in reciprocity and exchange with the natural environment by contemplating its role in our lives beyond it serving us.
**Presented by Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance**
Swamp Dance Fest University of Florida Virtual Dance Residency Directed by Trent D. Williams, Jr. Guest Artists Lela Aisha Jones and Elijah Alhadji Gibson
**Presented by the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance**
Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project Media Archive Exhibition Intercultural Journeys Project Artistic Co-Directors Lela Aisha Jones and Alex Shaw Project Advisor Germaine Ingram Media artists Laura Sofía Pérez, Aidan Un, and muthi reed
Icebox at Crane Arts 1400 N. American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 December 12-14, 2019
** Presented by Intercultural Journeys and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage**
nia love Lost At Sea Choreography/Direction: nia love Performers:Lela Aisha Jones, Iquo B. Essien,Jesse Phillips-Fein, nia love, Veleda Roehl Music Composition/Live Performance: Antoine Roney, Nioka Workman
The Theater at Gibney 280 BROADWAY, ENTRANCE AT 53A CHAMBERS New York City, NY 10007
Plight Release and the Diasporic Body: Jesus & Egun(Performance 1) Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround In conjunction with Fahamu Pecou’s DO OR DIE: AFFECT, RITUAL, RESISTANCE
The African American Museum of Philadelphia 701 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
**Presented by Partners for Sacred Spaces | Philadelphia Contemporary | Pew Center for the Arts &Heritage**
Kennedy Center Arts Summit Excerpts form the Native Portal Series and Plight Release & the Diasporic Body Lela Aisha Jones|FlyGround | Aidan Un (film) | Alex Shaw(sound artist and technical production)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F Street NW Washington, DC 20566 April 29, 2019| 8:00am-8:00pm
**Presented by The Kennedy Center and the Annenberg Foundation**
The Nankama African Dance Conference 2019 Original Spaces Film Screening | Ojeya Cruz Banks | Lela Aisha Jones | Aidan Un (Film) | Alex Shaw(Videographer)
Howard University Department of Dance 2400 Sixth Street NW Washington, DC 20059
**Exhibition generously sponsored by: PECO,Dr. Mian Jan Scholarship Fund, West Chester Downtown Foundation Thornbury Township, Delaware County,& Historical Commission**
Collegium for African Diaspora Dance 2018 Conference DANCE BLACK JOY: Global Affirmations and Defiance
Duke University Durham, NC February 16-18, 2018
February 16th |Town Hall Coalition for Diasporan Scholars Moving (CDSM) Town Hall Coalition for Diasporan Scholars Moving (CDSM) Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Adanna Kai Jones, Lela Aisha Jones & Saroya Corbett
February 18th| FilmOriginal Spaces (Aotearoa/New Zealand): Black/African/Pacific Diasporic Nomadic (Dance Film&Participatory Dialogue 60 min) Ojeya Cruz Banks Lela Aisha Jones
More information **Presented by the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance**
CREATIVE DISRUPTION: A VISUAL PROTEST FOR SOCIAL CHANGE features Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround and Dancing for Justice Philly | FlyGround in Films by Les Rivera & Aidan Un