Sep
6
3:30 PM15:30

Company Rep Class

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This month’s open community repertoire class will focus on the upcoming premiering work, Roots of Loving Us. Renowned dance artists holly johnston of Responsive Body and Ana Maria Alvarez from CONTRA-TIEMPO, both women of color, mothers, activists, and community leaders,  join forces to create Roots of Loving Us. This innovative, evening-length multimodal choreographic work uses somatic healing and ancestral technologies of dance, music, and imagery. It explores origin stories shaped by biological uprooting, unchosen separation, and the re-rooting of bodies, altering family tree DNA. The dancers of CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater bring this work to life through their embodied knowledge of afro-latine movement practices, focusing on narratives of adoption, foster families, bioadaptive families, queer parents, single-parent families, and diverse birthing experiences. Through deep community collaborations, cross-sensory experiences, and innovative production elements, ‘Roots of Loving Us' is a powerful testament to lives transformed by the enduring choice to love forever.

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Oct
11
3:30 PM15:30

Company Rep Class

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This month’s open community repertoire class will focus on the upcoming premiering work, Roots of Loving Us. Renowned dance artists holly johnston of Responsive Body and Ana Maria Alvarez from CONTRA-TIEMPO, both women of color, mothers, activists, and community leaders,  join forces to create Roots of Loving Us. This innovative, evening-length multimodal choreographic work uses somatic healing and ancestral technologies of dance, music, and imagery. It explores origin stories shaped by biological uprooting, unchosen separation, and the re-rooting of bodies, altering family tree DNA. The dancers of CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater bring this work to life through their embodied knowledge of afro-latine movement practices, focusing on narratives of adoption, foster families, bioadaptive families, queer parents, single-parent families, and diverse birthing experiences. Through deep community collaborations, cross-sensory experiences, and innovative production elements, ‘Roots of Loving Us' is a powerful testament to lives transformed by the enduring choice to love forever.

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Nov
22
3:30 PM15:30

Company Rep Class

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This month’s open community repertoire class will focus on the upcoming premiering work, ¡azúcar!. ¡azúcar! is a courageous naming/confrontation of and intentional obliteration of the undercurrent and often unspoken anti-Blackness in latinidad. This framework is embodied through the practice and sharing of our Afro-Latine ancestral movement and vibrational technologies. Through the direction of Ana Maria Álvarez, we journey through Celia Cruz’s vibrations and unearth information embedded in our bodies. Through “¡azúcar!”, we explore ancestral wisdoms about a plant that once aided in our healing, used as a way to sweeten medicinal concoctions, now extracted, refined and used as weaponized poison. The cast and creative team of brilliant collaborators, rooted in and inspired by the sacred feminine, are building the work from personal narratives of food, labor, community and explorations of 'familying' and healing as practices and brave choices.

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Company Rep Class
Feb
1
3:30 PM15:30

Company Rep Class

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This monthly open class centers excerpts from Agua Furiosa, a powerful former company work by CONTRA-TIEMPO that challenges audiences to confront the realities of race in America. Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Oya - the Afro-Cuban deity of wind and storms - the work is rooted in the company’s unapologetic Afro-Latin Diaspora movement language. Led by artistic director and choreographer Ana María Alvarez, this class invites participants to learn repertoire excerpts while exploring the cultural, political, and embodied context behind the choreography. Through fierce physicality, call and response, and collective reflection, participants are invited to move the archive and locate themselves within an ongoing conversation about race, power, and transformation. Open to all levels and backgrounds.

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Open Company Class w/ Ana Maria
Nov
21
5:30 PM17:30

Open Company Class w/ Ana Maria

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Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.

Join us for Ancestral Technologies of Resistance, a movement practice that invites you to liberate, awaken, and embody the spirit of protest through dance.

Part of the nationwide creative campaign, “Fall of Freedom is an urgent reminder that our stories and our art are not luxuries, but essential tools of resistance,” said Lynn Nottage. “When we gather in theaters and public spaces, we are affirming our humanity and our right to imagine a more just future.”

“As artists, we cannot be silent in the face of fascism — our art is our power, and Fall of Freedom gives us the space to express ourselves together,” said Dread Scott.

As Ana Maria Alvarez shared: “I would love to teach ancestral technologies of resistance! Folks can come move their bodies to liberate and enliven the spirit of protest and resistance.”

Come sweat, breathe, connect, and tap into the deep-rooted wisdom that lives in our bodies.
Whether you're a long-time mover or stepping into class for the first time — YOU are welcome here.

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Arts Administrators of Color 2025 Annual Convening
Nov
9
9:30 AM09:30

Arts Administrators of Color 2025 Annual Convening

this interactive activation invites participants to move together in community, exploring ancestral technologies of joy, call-and-response dance traditions, and somatic practices that restore and resource us. Whether opting into high-energy group dance or reflective bodywork, the session offers inclusive options for all bodies and states of being—reminding us that our bodies matter, that rest is resistance, and that moving together is a powerful practice of repair and resilience.

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Open Company Class w/ Ruby
Oct
10
5:30 PM17:30

Open Company Class w/ Ruby

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Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.

“Breaking taught me this…” with Ruby!

Breaking makes us confront our resilience, our creativity, and how we show up in community. Let’s get down together!

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