Aug 18 at 2pm & 7pm
Adia Tamar Whitaker's Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began.
Following The Road to Ose Tura is the landing pad for Whitaker's rumination's on facing her own mortality and the immortality of her friend. It is the container of Adia's reflections while realizing Efeya's films, navigating grief, loss, survivor's guilt, and the memories of the inequities Adia and Efeya experienced while interacting with healthcare system live.
Following The Road to Ose Tura isa four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker's choreography, including film projections of Sampson's work. It is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30 minute performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the entire 90 minute work as the evening length finale.
Times and locations:
Stage One | Thursday Aug 15: Outdoors, India Basin Shoreline Park
Ritual performances at 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm.
Free.
Stage Two | Friday Aug 16: Outdoors, Corridor between Salesforce Tower and Salesforce Transit Center
Ritual performances at 8pm, 8:45pm, and 9:30pm.
Free
Stage Three | Saturday, Aug 17: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Ritual performances at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm.
Free
Stage Four | Sunday, Aug 18: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Evening-length premiere at 2pm and 7pm
$20.
Presented by Dance Mission Theater.
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Adia Tamar Whitaker's Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began.
Following The Road to Ose Tura is the landing pad for Whitaker's rumination's on facing her own mortality and the immortality of her friend. It is the container of Adia's reflections while realizing Efeya's films, navigating grief, loss, survivor's guilt, and the memories of the inequities Adia and Efeya experienced while interacting with healthcare system live.
Following The Road to Ose Tura isa four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker's choreography, including film projections of Sampson's work. It is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30 minute performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the entire 90 minute work as the evening length finale.
Times and locations:
Stage One | Thursday Aug 15: Outdoors, India Basin Shoreline Park
Ritual performances at 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm.
Free.
Stage Two | Friday Aug 16: Outdoors, Corridor between Salesforce Tower and Salesforce Transit Center
Ritual performances at 8pm, 8:45pm, and 9:30pm.
Free
Stage Three | Saturday, Aug 17: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Ritual performances at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm.
Free
Stage Four | Sunday, Aug 18: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Evening-length premiere at 2pm and 7pm
$20.
Presented by Dance Mission Theater.
Aug 18 at 2pm & 7pm
Adia Tamar Whitaker's Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began.
Following The Road to Ose Tura is the landing pad for Whitaker's rumination's on facing her own mortality and the immortality of her friend. It is the container of Adia's reflections while realizing Efeya's films, navigating grief, loss, survivor's guilt, and the memories of the inequities Adia and Efeya experienced while interacting with healthcare system live.
Following The Road to Ose Tura isa four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker's choreography, including film projections of Sampson's work. It is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30 minute performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the entire 90 minute work as the evening length finale.
Times and locations:
Stage One | Thursday Aug 15: Outdoors, India Basin Shoreline Park
Ritual performances at 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm.
Free.
Stage Two | Friday Aug 16: Outdoors, Corridor between Salesforce Tower and Salesforce Transit Center
Ritual performances at 8pm, 8:45pm, and 9:30pm.
Free
Stage Three | Saturday, Aug 17: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Ritual performances at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm.
Free
Stage Four | Sunday, Aug 18: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Evening-length premiere at 2pm and 7pm
$20.
Presented by Dance Mission Theater.
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Adia Tamar Whitaker's Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began.
Following The Road to Ose Tura is the landing pad for Whitaker's rumination's on facing her own mortality and the immortality of her friend. It is the container of Adia's reflections while realizing Efeya's films, navigating grief, loss, survivor's guilt, and the memories of the inequities Adia and Efeya experienced while interacting with healthcare system live.
Following The Road to Ose Tura isa four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker's choreography, including film projections of Sampson's work. It is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30 minute performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the entire 90 minute work as the evening length finale.
Times and locations:
Stage One | Thursday Aug 15: Outdoors, India Basin Shoreline Park
Ritual performances at 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm.
Free.
Stage Two | Friday Aug 16: Outdoors, Corridor between Salesforce Tower and Salesforce Transit Center
Ritual performances at 8pm, 8:45pm, and 9:30pm.
Free
Stage Three | Saturday, Aug 17: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Ritual performances at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm.
Free
Stage Four | Sunday, Aug 18: Indoors, Dance Mission Theater
Evening-length premiere at 2pm and 7pm
$20.
Presented by Dance Mission Theater.
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