Nationwide — OrigiNation Cultural Arts Middle – pioneers of revolutionary and dynamic performing arts applications that encourage, problem, and encourage youth to be the perfect they are often – will host Our Story! Celebrating the African American Expertise on Saturday, February 17, 2024, begins at 7:00 p.m. on the Strand Theater at 543 Columbia Highway, Dorchester, MA. All are invited to attend a personal costume rehearsal on Tuesday, February 13, for a singular sneak peek of the manufacturing and to fulfill this dynamic forged.
OrigiNation, beneath the course of its Founding Creative Director and famend choreographer Shaumba Yandje Dibinga, is proud to current Our Story, a singular and highly effective efficiency that celebrates the wealthy historical past and tradition of African and African American folks. Our Story is a compilation of poetry, dance, music, and scenes from historic and present occasions which have formed and outlined the African and African American expertise. The performances will function proficient college students from native faculties, excessive faculties, and center faculties, in addition to OrigiNation’s personal Skilled Dance Division. Be a part of us for an unforgettable night of artistry, historical past, and inspiration.
Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga oversees the operations of all of OrigiNation’s applications. Ms. Dibinga has in depth coaching and over 30 years of instructing and efficiency expertise in African, faucet, hip-hop, swing, gospel, ballet, step, trendy, and jazz. She acquired dance coaching on the Boston Conservatory and the Alvin Ailey College and is a former principal dancer and choreographer for Ebony Inspiration and a former Boston All Metropolis Dance Firm member. She is an actress, author, and director of performs and musicals, together with Tafuta! A Younger Boy’s Seek for the True Which means of Kwanzaa, which opened in 2011. Ms. Dibinga can be the co-director and co-producer of Our Story, A Celebration of the African American Expertise by way of Music, Dance, and Spoken Phrase.
Ms. Dibinga has acquired quite a few awards for her work with OrigiNation, together with the Barr Basis Fellowship Class of 2011, the Boston Neighborhood Fellows Award, The Boston Renaissance Constitution Public College Legends Award, The Philanthropic Initiative’s Boston Fellows Award, Pearl Primus Scholar, Afrikan Achievers Award, the Buddies of Melnea Cass Youthand Group Service Award, the Portraits of Braveness Upstander’s Award, and the Linde Household Basis 2018 Youth Arts Bridge Braveness Award. She has additionally appeared in a number of function movies, musicals, industrials, tv commercials, and interviews, together with WCVB’s Chronicle, Sunday Morning with Liz Walker, and City Replace. She is a trustee on the Boston Renaissance Constitution Public College and earned her B.A. in Africana Research from the College of Massachusetts Boston.
To buy tickets for Our Story, please go to https://OURSTORY2024.eventbrite.com. Tickets are $25. These unable to attend Our Story however occupied with supporting OrigiNation could achieve this by visiting the donation web page.
AboutEstablished in 1994 by Creative Director Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga, OrigiNation, Included is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group that produces revolutionary and dynamic performing arts applications that encourage, problem, and encourage youth to be the perfect they are often. We provide high quality dance, theater arts, and African historical past schooling. Emphasis is positioned on instructing younger folks between the ages of two and 18 the significance of self-respect, well being, vitamin, schooling, vanity, and the extent of African influences on numerous up to date artwork varieties. Yearly, the group serves roughly 150 youths by way of our on-site applications and a further 1,500 youth by way of our off-site applications. They practice the youth of all ranges in a number of dance varieties, public talking, and martial arts.
OrigiNation additionally implements particular initiatives to boost our college students’ consciousness about pertinent social points and to facilitate their growth into well-rounded, productive residents inside their households and communities. Whereas our applications are open to all youth, we give attention to offering companies to younger folks from Boston’s underserved neighborhoods, together with Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan. For extra info, please go to OriginationInc.org.
For press inquiries, contact Musau Dibinga, OrigiNation Cultural Arts Middle, musau@originationinc.org or 617-308-6322.
