Connection Jam - Winter 2025

Theatre & Dance’s Professor Ana Maria Alvarez and BSP present Connection Jam, a 2 hour weekly free movement laboratory, as a part of BSP’s Black Visual and Performing Arts Series (BVPA). Connection Jam is an opportunity to play, think, engage, and explore with embodiment at the core - build resilience, joy, and connection. Practice embodied liberation. All are welcome, no experience needed. The only requirement: a desire to move your body in community! This year’s BVPA Connection Jam features sessions led by new dance faculty member Bernard Brown (artistic director of Bernard Brown/bbmoves, a social justice dance theater company), Kara Mack (choreographer in films such as COMING TO AMERICA 2), Daunté Fyall (founder of the West African performance company DAANSEKOU), and Youssouf Koumbassa (educator and former principle dancer with Ballets Djoliba, one of Guinea's most important national dance companies).

NO RSVP REQUIRED 

Select Wednesdays, Winter 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (PST)

Venue 1 - Molli & Arthur Wagner Dance Building (Studio 3) (“Wagner Studio 3”) 

(view on UCSD map)

Venue 2 - The Loft at UCSD (“The Loft”) (view on UCSD map)

Wednesday, January 22 - West African Dance with Youssouf Koumbassa at Wagner Studio 3

Wednesday, February 5 - Dunham Get Down with Bernard Brown at The Loft

Wednesday, February 12 - Africa in America with Kara Mack at The Loft

Wednesday, February 26 - Stepping with Daunté Fyall at The Loft