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Sway, step and slide. Dive into the world of dance with these stories.

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"Until We Win" is an artists' response to the injustices faced by Black people who are brutalized by police. It is a song for solidarity and a poem to remember so that we never forget.
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"Playground" is an online dance project that encourages us all to seek self-expression and joy in our personal spaces.
"Perspective" | Courtesy of L.A. Dance Festival
From June 23 to June 30, "Dance for L.A.: Off the Stage and Onto the Screen" is available to stream for free to a dance-loving audience.
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St. Mary's Academy students present a joyful dance performance facilitated by the Heidi Duckler Dance education residency program.
 Martha Graham in Immediate Tragedy. Photograph by Robert Fraser, 1937. Courtesy of Martha Graham Resources, a division of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
Martha Graham’s reaction to the Spanish Civil War, the lost “Immediate Tragedy” performance is reimagined for the digital age and presented online as a way to reflect on today’s tragedies.
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"Duet" is a study in making dance for the camera. In testing the new medium, dancers explore light, space and environment, cinematography, body, composition and story.
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"Illuminating the Chandelier" was a Zoom-specific live performance inspired by Clarice Lispector's novel "The Chandelier," about a woman living in isolation.
Viver Brasil - Celebrating Samba
Take a virtual journey to Brazil to experience samba's jolts of joyful color, thrilling rhythms and communal celebration with Viver Brazil's signature family program, "Celebrating Samba."
Living Room Dance - Himerria Wortham
Dancer Himerria Wortham shares what life has been like in quarantine through a piece called "Living Room Dance."
A detail of Roberto Chavez's "The Path to Knowledge and the False University," 1974. This features a figure Chavez called "Our Mother."| UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Murales Rebeldes
How is our perception of knowledge affected by the performing arts, humanities and culture, and the history and future of immigration? UCLA representatives Kristy Edmunds, Victoria Marks, Todd Presner and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco discuss "What is Knowledge?"
Dancers at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre
The Lula Washington Dance Theatre offer dance classes and structure for local young people while also educating them about black history and current events through dance.
African-American women in dance
From ballet and modern dance to Lindy hop and hip-hop, African-American women have left indelible marks on the dance community. 
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