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Santa Cruz Dance Presents: Zari Le'on Dance Theater
âTheir skin was very black. Not the glitterBlack of negroes, but mat black, as if the sun sucked away all possibility of reflectionâ (Chatwin, 5)
ZLDTâs newest work âglitterBlackâ is a dance theater adaptation of Bruce Chatwinâs description of the American Negro in his famous ethnography titled âSonglines.. The four-person dialogue of movement examines the depth of Black music and itâs positive legacy outside of the exploitative lens of mainstream media.
About Zari Leâon: Artistic Director, Zari Leâon Dance Theater
Choreographer/Educator/Performer
Zari Leâon is a native of Santa Cruz, CA where she began taking dance classes at the Louden Nelson Center. As a woman of Black, Mexican and Cretan descent, Zari uses her multi-cultural experience as a platform to explore different genres of dance in her choreography and performance. Zari has worked and toured with notables such as R&B star Keyshia Cole, Dwayne Wiggins and the Punany Poets. She has performed in dances by Rennie Harris (Puremovement), Peter Sparling (Martha Graham Dance Company) and Nora Chipaumire (Urban Bush Women). Zari is an artist-scholar who was most recently a Rackham merit fellowship recipient at the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA in Dance and was awarded prestigious residencies to conduct site-specific research in Crete and the Yucatan Peninsula. Zari has been a guest instructor at Middlebury College, University of San Francisco, Scripps College, and on faculty at Mills College, University of Michigan and Ailey Camp.
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418 Front St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States
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