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aCrossGEN: Roots Under / Routes Through

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Short Film Creation Residency: Namibia

May 2024 - present

Windhoek, Namibia

Collaborator: OYO Dance Troupe


In collaboration with the  OYO Dance Troupe, CDS Movement Collective founder Samara dos Santos travelled to Namibia for a month-long artist residency. She directed and choreographed dances for a short film. Made with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the film focuses on a love story between "magentic" couples where one partner is HIV-positive and the other is not. The film is intended to bring social awareness around HIV/AIDS to young people utilising contemporary dance and physical theatre.

SarakaFest

August 2024

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Client: Ballet Creole


As part of Toronto Arts Council’s “Animating Toronto Parks” program, “Saraka in the Park”, which took place on August 24, 2024 in Toronto’s Fountainhead Park, was a community event honouring the African feast of Thanksgiving. Dancers from Ballet Creole performed a ballet in eight sections, each one defined by a clear and specific cultural influence from the Caribbean. CDS Movement Collective provided project design, financing, and administrative services leading up to and during the event. The festival, which also included drumming and dance workshops, and food and craft vendors, drew participants from all over the GTA in worship of the ancestral spirits who brought freedom to the mother-land. 

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Past Projects

Ballet Creole's 30+ Dance Season

Sharing Caribbean Dance in Nuremberg, Germany

Sagoma Doc: People of Colour, Mental Health & Spiritual Tradition

Carifesta XIV in Trinidad & Tobago

Dance Expo for Diverse Dance in Toronto

Ballet Creole's 20th Anniversary of Soulful Messiah


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