Celebrating 50 years of sustainable practices through dance with you,

THIS WEEK AT THE YARD
 
Urban Bush Women Workshop
August 2nd | The Studio, The Yard

Haint Blu investigates sustainability practices and holistic healing that has helped communities thrive and imagines how those might restore our own bodies and minds in the present. This participatory workshop focuses on self-care, rejuvenation, and (re-) constructing healthful images of ourselves and our communities. As we move, share stories, and discuss holism practices from food choices to daily stress relief, Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitators (Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance) offer simple tools for reinhabiting our bodies and reinforcing holism from the inside out. We also bring out and affirm the wisdom that is already in the group, fostering resource exchange and building community. The goal is to bring ourselves to balance, thereby bringing our families and communities to balance as well. No dance or fitness experience is necessary...just a body and a willingness to exhale!

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
 
URBAN BUSH WOMEN
Performs HAINT BLU August 9-12, 7pm | Orange Peel Bakery Aquinnah

Haint Blu is an ensemble dance-theater work seeped in memory and magic. Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, Haint Blu uses performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest: remembering, reclaiming, releasing, and restoring. It is an embodied look into familial lines and the movements, histories and stories of our elders and ancestors. It reflects on what has been lost across generations and what can be recovered. Haint Blu takes us to the magical place where spirits share their legacies, journey onward, and leave the thick residue of their knowledge behind. Haint Blu is inspired by SCAT!, Urban Bush Women’s musical theater work in development.

Urban Bush Women (UBW) burst onto the dance scene in 1984, with bold, innovative, demanding and exciting works that brought under-told stories to life through the art and vision of its award-winning Founder and Visioning Partner, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. The company continues to weave contemporary dance, music, and text with the history, culture, and spiritual traditions of the African Diaspora under the artistic direction Co-Artistic Directors of the UBW Company, Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis.

Urban Bush Women performs regularly in New York City and tours nationally and internationally. The Company has been commissioned by presenters nationwide, and includes among its honors a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”); the Capezio Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance; a Black Theater Alliance Award; two Doris Duke Awards for New Work from the American Dance Festival; and named one of America’s Cultural Treasures by the Ford Foundation.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS
          
Kids Do Dance
Creative dance program for kids | Ages 6-12
Monday-Friday | 9:30am-12:00pm
Session 3: August 14th-18th

Each weeklong program will challenge the children through fun, active dance classes, that build skill and technique; nurture the child’s choreographer voice and individual artistic expression through composition studies. Kids will cultivate connections to professional dancers in residency with us at the Yard.

Limited Scholarships are available. Email Programming Director, Yvonne Mendez for details: [email protected]

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Yoga with Mollie Doyle
July 1 - Late August 2023

Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7 am, Saturdays at 8 am

NO CLASS AUGUST 12TH

Mollie’s classes focus on intelligent sequencing, linking breath to movement, and building a practice that brings consciousness and ease to the body and mind. Mollie has studied yoga for more than 25 years. She has practiced many forms of yoga – Iyengar, Ashtanga, Hatha – with many masters –  including Sri K. Pattabi Jois, Richard Freeman, Richard Rosen, Colleen Saidman, Rodney Yee, Heidi Fokine, Kristin Leigh and Barbara Verrochi. Mollie is the founder of Yoga at The Yard. She teaches classes and workshops on Martha's Vineyard and wherever anyone puts their mat down.