Celebrity Series of Boston

Black Voices Boston

Image: Liliana, one of the dancers from Sankofa Danzafro looks up against a black background.

Premieres on December 6 at 7 PM

Join us at the showcase of Black Voices Boston, a short film with seven dance vignettes that shares the stories of seven Black Bostonians. Each participant's story will be reimagined into a dance choreographed by Rafael Palacios, founder of Colombian dance company Sankofa Danzafro.

The participants of Black Voices Boston are:

  • Cherié Butts PhD, medical director from Arlington, Mass.
  • Marlon Forrester, a painter, and art educator from Mattapan, Boston
  • Napoleon Jones-Henderson, renowned artist and educator from Roxbury, Boston
  • Shirley Jones-Luke, writer, poet, and public school educator from Dorchester, Boston
  • Nina La Negra, resident teaching artist and art educator from the South End, Boston
  • Janaeya Moon, rising high school senior and rapper from Dorchester
  • Ellice Patterson, Executive Director of Abilities Dance Boston and Ballet Rox, from Brookline, Mass.

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Sponsored by 

 

and 2020/21 Dance Series sponsors

Stephanie L. Brown Foundation, Cynthia & John S. Reed Foundation, and Royal Little Family Foundation

Support for this project is provided by the Barr Foundation and its ArtsAmplified initiative and by the National Endowment for the Arts through its CARES Act funds

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Celebrity Series of Boston is grateful to our 2020/21 season sponsors Amy & Joshua Boger, and to the many individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies whose support helps fulfill our mission to present performing artists who inspire and enrich our community and our vision of a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, shared experience - on stages, on streets, in neighborhoods - everywhere.