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Step Afrika!

The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence

November 4, 2016
Zellerbach Theatre
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Grades 5+

Stepping is a percussive, rhythmic dance style combining African and modern dance traditions. This professional company performs pieces from their full-length work, The Migration, based on Jacob Lawrence’s iconic painting series that charts the story of African-Americans moving from the south to the north in the early 1900s. High-energy performance combines with the images, color palette and motifs of the paintings.

For more information about this Arts4Youth performance and to order tickets, call 215.573.8827 or email groups@ac.upenn.edu.

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This engagement of Step Afrika! is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo credit: Meredith Hanafi