Dance We Do cid_3781 Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change

and always wise

lingering in happiness

Kendi is the 2022 General Assembly Ware Lecturer

Dance We Do cid_3781 Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorationsMany learned of Ntozake Shanges ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year. But before she found fame as a writer, poet, performer, dancer, and storyteller, she was an untrained student who found her footing in others classrooms. Dance We Do is a tribute to those who taught