Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi Dance!

Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi (Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, artistic director of Urban Bush Women; Germaine Acogny, artistic director of Compagnie Jant-Bi) will be performing at Power Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 28 and 29, 2008, sponsored by University Musical Society.

This unique project is setting the performance world abuzz for bringing together two African and African-American dance companies — one all-male and one all-female — and two powerhouse female choreographers. Germaine Acogny, hailed as the "mother of contemporary African dance," explores the role of identity within a community in this transcontinental collaboration with Brooklyn-based choreographer and Urban Bush Women founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Urban Bush Women weaves the cultural and spiritual traditions of African Americans and the African Diaspora into life-affirming works that explore the transformation of struggle and suffering. This new work, which receives its premiere in January, 2008, is rich with West African movements, rhythms, and styles.

"The Urban Bush Women are unabashedly unapologetic about what they are: fierce, feminine, militant, agressive, sassy, funny and proud."
(The Herald Sun, Durham)

"Compagnie Jant-Bi dances with a mind-blowing intensity."
(The New York Times)

For more information and tickets, check out University Musical Society.