Creative Escape: Choreo-Poems

Join founder and director of Dunya Performing Arts Company, Jeannine Osayande, for a creative and rhythmic evening inspired by the powerful works of Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade. Get ready to groove in this workshop and connect through synchronized moves, soulful music, haiku poetry, and fun social bonding to create your own Friendship Choreo-Poem. Participants will learn dance traditions like Sanko, Flex, Lights Camera Action, and Blow the Whistle, and further explore how rhythm can be used when working with communities.

All materials will be provided, and no experience is necessary. Light snacks will be available and BYOB is encouraged.

The museum galleries will open at 5:30. At 6:00 pm there will be a brief art discussion in one of our galleries for inspiration, followed by the workshop beginning at 6:15 pm.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Educator of Adult and Community Programs, Bailey Gamberg, at [email protected] or (610) 388-8120.

Teaching Artist Bio

Jeannine Osyande is a polycentric interdisciplinary Choreographer, Educator, Performer, Cultural Expert of West African Diaspora/African Derived dance and drum traditions whose work intersects with her community’s folklife documentation on the historically Black neighborhood of Swarthmore Oral history documentation research. She is founder and director of Dunya Performing Arts Company (DunyaPAC), specializing in Art Integration, where the arts become the approach to teaching and the vehicle for learning. Jeannine & DunyaPAC have provided programming on the Black Experience for 40 years, reaching hundreds of thousands of people, locally and internationally.