March 2 & 3, 2019 8:00PM Sanchel Brown's Home to Homeland Dance Class

From Baltimore to Senegal, Sanchel Brown’s new evening length dance journey is a reminder that home is always beneath the feet.

Urban Movement Art's current Artist in Resident Sanchel Brown presents Home to Homeland on March 2 & 3, at 8 pm.

Philadelphia, PA - In Home to Homeland, choreographer Sanchel Brown, dances, sings, raps, and raises an eyebrow as she travels from 1920’s Harlem to contemporary day time television. Brown weaves common yet diverse movement languages of footwork, as she invites us to follower her footprints towards the meaning of Motherland. Home to Homeland includes stops smack dab in the middle of a New Orleans second line as well as the Baltimore of Brown’s childhood.

Sanchel has been teaching her B’more Afro House class at Urban Movement Arts since summer of 2018, when she came on as a Guest Teaching Artist. The richness of her varied training and passion continues to unfold as she explores her repertoire more broadly, including her experience as a theater actor and choreographer. Talking about the piece/her process, Brown considers, “While in Senegal, I felt a connection of Dance as healing -- as connected to my childhood in Baltimore -- although there were dark days and minimal resources, everyone danced. While visiting New Orleans, I witnessed the same connection to brown bodies whom seem to have lost so much, yet have so much through their dance.”
March 2 8 pm
March 3 8 pm
$12
Tickets online or at the door:
https://tinyurl.com/UMAsanchel

2100 Chestnut St (2nd Floor), Philadelphia, PA
*entrance on 21st, next to Poi Dog*