Community Arts

Voice of Culture Drum and Dance would like to produce 4 new works of African Drum and Dance performance, each to be created, costumed and premiered at 4 established performance venues. Our project is to create these new pieces of art, perform them at each of their selected premiers, and then combine the new work with material from our repertoire and produce and perform a free community concert in North Minneapolis in late August 2014.Getting cast in the 4 established performance venues will be the first measure of success. Even if we don’t achieve that, we still have to measure how well we created the meaning of each piece. We will be engaging audiences at the free community concert in discussion to evaluate the caliber of the information that we are trying to communicate. Voice of Culture is a multi-generational Black performance company where members learn to dance, drum and tell the stories behind the rhythms and movements. Excellence requires cultural awareness technical proficiency, and spiritual engagement. While difficult to measure, it is the development of these traits that we want our members to experience. Financially, Voice of Culture will be successful if we can support ourselves as working artists.