10×10 Festival: Jacob’s Pillow Presents CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater

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Join CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater and Jacob’s Pillow for a special community dance workshop and performance, part of Pittsfield’s 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival!

Tuesday, February 20 | Dance Workshop at 6:30

• Get moving and grooving with a “Sabor Session” (from the Spanish word for “flavor”) where CONTRA-TIEMPO will guide participants in Afro-latin social dance forms that are rooted in radical joy. Together we embody joy as a form of resistance and a tool to build community. Appropriate for all ages. 

Friday, February 23| Performance at 6:30

• ¡azúcar! brings to life the vibrations of Cuban musician Celia Cruz, and embodies personal narratives about sugar, Afro-Latin ancestral technologies, dance, music, and healing as a community practice. The development of ¡azúcar! is driven by questions of unearthing the history embedded in the artists’ bodies to courageously name, confront, and intentionally obliterate the often unspoken undercurrent of anti-Blackness in Latinidad. Join artists for a Q&A following the performance. 

The Common Room at Zion Lutheran Church | 74 First Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201

Free | Open to all

Pre-registration strongly encouraged; space is limited! Walk-ups welcome, pending capacity. 

In partnership with the Common Room at Zion Lutheran Church, Love Pittsfield, and NAACP Berkshire County Branch.