Jamal Jackson Dance Company

Jamal Jackson Dance Company in residency for a week-long outreach program with participants from Hudson-based urban youth organizations Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center and Perfect Ten Hudson, and in partnership with the Sylvia Center. Participants integrate traditional Malian movement, a practice deeply connected to the earth, and dama, the masked dance rituals practiced by the Dogon people of Mali and Burkina Faso, with contemporary dance techniques to impart self-confidence, discipline, and communication. Company members and students will perform their new dances and percussion compositions. Residency August 7–14, 2022