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Announcing new name & project- Zyah Collective & DancingCourage

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Introducing ZYAH Collective  (formerly Rebel Home Dance) ZYAH - Zya means light in various languages/traditions (african, arabic and jewish, and more); the added H stands for healing-- Healing--- “Light Healing”.  Sheena Hampton-Johnson (SHJ)/ZYAH Collective promotes healing and liberation through inquiry-based writing and performance. Grounded in connection to land & place, and honoring the infinite knowledge of our bodies, ZYAH Collective utilizes our embodied histories as the site of departure for our work. We produce acts of public instigation that incite courage, imagination and change. Lead instigator Sheena Hampton-Johnson aims to contribute towards building a world where we all can be safe, and at home. We are now fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas! You can donate to ZYAH Collective here NEW PROJECT: DancingCourage This book is a memoir as medicine. Through a spiritual lens, I seek to lift up my learnings in this skin thus far; My offering for collective liberat...
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Dance Poems: Medicine for Desperate Times

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Sheena Johnson/REBEL HOME presents new work Medicine for Desperate Times   #DancingCourage Series photos @West Art District, Orlando FL New Videos Posted on @sauda99 instragram account weekly Recent Videos: the light can wait, we conjure in the dark  let go, it is not our load to bare we must be our neighbor's keeper, our humanity depends on it 
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DreamBoundFree: A Ritual Performance Meditation on Freedom

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DreamBoundFree Series Sheena Johnson/Rebel Home Dance’s most recent performance series  DreamBoundFree  explores the question:   Within the context of this political moment of Charlottesville and #blacklivesmatter, what futures are truly possible for black folks in these lands?   ARTIST STATEMENT:   Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus Remembering Rebirth Exodus... Vocalization rooted in the black spiritual and soul tradition has become an integral part of this performance series and ritual. It is about vocally claiming our future, though we haven’t seen it, we must have faith, and we must claim that freedom is on its way…   How do we communicate our humanity to those content with our blood shed?  What are the ties that bind? How do...
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Announcing New Work: Close & Personal

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Sheena Johnson/REBEL HOME presents new work  Close & Personal photos by Indira Allegra, Crossover When : Saturday, September 28th and Sunday, September 29th, 2013 5:30-7:30pm. Where: The MilkBar* 851 81st Ave  #223,  Oakland, CA 94621 Tickets:   $15-20, no one turned away for lack of funds Tickets available at:   closeandpersonal.brownpapertickets.com  and the door Through a series of provocative intimate encounters,  Close   &   Personal   re-attaches our daily lives to the things we hold most dear. In an age of severe disconnection and systemic violence how do we transform our collective sorrow and anger to imagine a way forward?   This new site specific performance creates a moving communal experience integrating installation + dance + new music + laughter + film + food. Evening highlights:    Multimedia Performance by Indira Allegra, "...
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The Yellow House Project @ National Queer Arts Fesitval June 26-27th

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Dancers : Atasiea/Kenneth L. Ferguson, Sheena Johnson Photo © Kurt Loeffler / Loefflerphoto.com The Yellow House Project June 26-27th (Tue-Wed) 7:30pm Installation Opens, 8pm Show $12-20 @THEOFFCENTER 848 Divisadero, SF Multidisciplinary The Yellow House Project is a mullti-disciplinary performative remembrance of our inherited black queer legacies. Through various mediums (dance+theatre+poetry+film+installation) black queer artists "queer their roots" in effort to look at what we can all learn about love, loving and being loved through discovering and re-imagining our black LGBTQI ancestors. Curated by Sheena Johnson/REBEL HOME DANCE (SJRH) Featured Artists: Sheena Johnson, Indira Allegra, m. a. brooks and Nia King SJRH Collaborators: Chris Evans, Kenneth L. Ferguson aka Atasiea, and Nzinga Woods  BUY TICKETS!  Brown Paper Tickets $12-20:   https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246315 EVENT ON FACEBOOK!...
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Announcing New Work: LandHome

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REBEL HOME DANCE presents   LandHome Occupation, displacement, and migration photo credit: P.M, Lydon Ernest Jolly's installation "Natural Reactions" with Sheena Johnson Along with collaborators, Artistic Director Sheena Johnson will present an evening length experience that will expand and embrace those moments that bring us closer to finding a place to land.   LandHome uses a collage of imagery . . . broken weathered bodies, tree-scapes, gospel songs, rocks from a riverbank . . . It is a personal and collective rendering of how we create home in the places we happen to land. Collaborating Artists: Chris Evans (sound, video, movement), Ernest Jolly (visual artist) & dance artists: Atasiea, Byb Chanel Bibene, Mary Ann Brooks, Jochelle Elise Pereña & Jasmine Vassar Date: Friday March 30th & Saturday March 31st, 8pm Location: Temescal Arts Center, 511 48th Street, Oakland (between Telegraph & Shattuck) Tickets: $12 in advance @ brownpaperti...
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New Work: Mourning to Morning

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Don't miss my one-time performance in response to Ernest Jolly's window installation site Natural Reaction   with music by Chris Evans. Evening will also include performances by multimedia artist and cellist Chris Evans  and Bay Area Dance Company  andanco  entitled Aftermath.   The details are below:  Date:   Friday, June 17,  8:30pm Location:   155 Grove Street, SFAC Window Installation Site with a reception following the performance at the SFAC Main Gallery in the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Ave The SFAC Gallery presents an evening of music, dance and art in a unique San Francisco setting. Under the early evening sky, we’ll gather on the sidewalk outside Bay Area artist Ernest Jolly's installation,  Natural Reaction , in front of the SFAC Gallery Window Installation Site.  Jolly has created an environment that incorporates elements such as water, wind, sound and light, and is inspired by a post- natural disaster ...
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