Dance for Every Body:
​Movement Workshop

This movement jam/dance class embraces the ideas that each individual has a unique and powerful contribution to make, and that our bodies are a powerful source of agency. The goal is for "every body" to find their level of challenge and comfort and partake according to their abilities, and to appreciate the groups’ diversity as an attribute to their community. This is a movement class designed for the community so no prior dance experience is needed. Participants explore UBW's technique with close attention to the use of breath, weight, call and response and polyrhythm.

Presented by...

Bianca Leticia Medina is a Boricua-Mexicana NYC based Dance Artist. She began her career based in Los Angeles working as a full-time dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist touring globally with CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, Viver Brasil Dance Company, and choreographer/ collaborator Marina Magalhães. A proud Chicago native, Medina holds a B.F.A in Dance from University of Iowa, and has studied in-depth in Salvador, Bahia, Brasil with internationally acclaimed choreographer, Vera Passos. Currently, Medina holds a Rehearsal Director & Co-Choregrapher position in Magalhães’s Creative Capital Award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads, and was honored to be a Company Member with critically acclaimed legacy, Urban Bush Women.
Urban Bush Women is a groundbreaking Black women-led theatrical dance company and social activism ensemble. Founded in 1984 by visionary choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, UBW is an engine and amplifier for the stories of Black Women+. UBW combines radical performance, deep engagement, and ancestral knowledge from the African diaspora into a force that is urgent, forward-looking, and essential. UBW has defied expectations for over 40 years. The very bodies of its founding members – Black women of various shapes and sizes – changed the landscape of who could be seen on stage as a dancer. The work placed the concerns of such women center stage. UBW embraces radical storytelling to activate social change. Whether creating genre-defying work for the stage, guiding the development of Black Women+ choreographers and producers, organizing for justice through artmaking, UBW is an innovator, operating at the vanguard. www.urbanbushwomen.org 
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; The New York Community Trust 
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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