Magira Eue Ross

Magira Ross, an advocate for the preservation and transmission of African American dance and culture, will bring together a multigenerational collective of artists to develop a community performance, BEAT!, and public roundtable in North Philadelphia that explores black vernacular dance beyond its misperception as the frivolous capering of black folk. Together participants will embrace their ‘everyday’ dance as the text of their lives, and reveal its power to kinetically express their values, histories, spiritual beliefs, memories and lived experiences.