Move More! Class
Please register by 9:30 am:
Sammy Dizon | Founding Artistic Director of Urban x Indigenous
Bonus January class 10-11:00 am
SAMMAY (Spiritually Awakened Matriarchal Magick Alchemizing You) invokes movement as a means for collective healing and liberation. Drawing from indigenous epistemologies, she takes us on an embodied journey through the 4 elements (earth, water, air, fire) and connects the importance of somatic awareness to our personal values and ideologies. To be in service to the revolution, we must stay connected to the source. We must be committed to radically imagining more holistic ways of living that offer us infinite possibilities into the future we know is on its way.
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SAMMAY (she/they/siya) is the daughter of Yolanda Peñaflor Dizon; granddaughter of Salvacion Orencillo Peñaflor and Carolina Agdeppa Dizon. Born from a collective dream where the ancestors danced, drummed, and sang around ceremonial fire in the mountain tops of the arkipelago - she is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer of Bikol, Kapampangan, and Ilokano descent who bridges the traditional and contemporary in centering embodied storytelling as a vehicle for collective healing and liberation. Through multimedia dance theatre, she invokes rituals for remembering and decolonizing - creating to honor the tapestry of indigenous epistemologies embedded in our urban landscapes. Raised in LA County/Tongva Land and a settler in San Francisco/Yelamu, her practice is rooted in the fundamental knowing that dance is the medium that connects the earth and ancestral realm - the passageway to transmute intergenerational trauma across cultural lines and geographical borders. SAMMAY is the Founding Artistic Director of Urban x Indigenous and Core Member of Embodiment Project. She has been featured by Dance Mission Theater, CounterPulse, Kearny Street Workshop among others, and was the first-ever Featured Artist for the United States of Asia America Festival 2018. To follow her journey through the diaspora: www.sammaydizon.com.