Here & Now 2021: Program II

Roxana Barba is a Miami-based performer and dance maker whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of dance, film and video. Her work explores personal and cosmic paradigms, cultural memory and the hidden. Roxana’s choreography has been presented by Perez Art Museum, ScreenDance Miami, Women in Dance Leadership Conference and Miami Performance Festival, among others.

Brittany Williams, a womanist, a ride or die freedom fighter, and art-maker – creates work that is the part reality, part fugitive. Brittany’s artistic work biomythically explores her ancestral lineage and memory of growing up in the swamplands of Florida. She is a principal dancer with Olujimi Dance (Michelle Grant Murray), and is a collaborator with Slippage (Thomas DeFrantz).

KayandPatmoves is the choreographic collaboration of Kayla Castellon and Patricia Rose Suarez. Their work investigates the complexities of the human experience- aiming to expose the lightness in life without discrediting the weight. Kayla and Patricia feel strongly about empowering young people to take up space and unapologetically express themselves.

Shamar Watt is an artist born in Kingston (Jamaica) raised in Miami. What drives Watt as an artist is the science of black bodies and how the sonic science of blackness resonates in the world and the infinite universe. Watt was a 2018 Bessie Nominee and in 2019 he was the recipient of the prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Nora Chipaumire’s work.