NPR / Rising From The Ashes, Jacob’s Pillow Welcomes Back Dancers, Audiences

‘The next weekend, CONTRA-TIEMPO, an Afro-Latin activist dance theater from Los Angeles, saw many of its performances rained out, as well. Founder and choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez was philosophical. “We haven’t been able to do all the shows that we were planning to do,” she says. “But in some ways, it feels a little bit like Mother Nature being, like, ‘sit down and slow down… you remember the things that we really learned from this year are moving at the speed of community.’” And her company, which hadn’t danced together during the pandemic, took advantage of the down time to hold dance classes in a tent, to continue to build community.’

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