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Learn to Build & Sustain a Life that Feels like Home to the Soul
Learn to Build & Sustain a Life that Feels like Home to the Soul
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FUNDING AWARDS:
Akonadi Foundation* Alliance for CA Traditional Arts* Berkeley Film Foundation City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program* East Bay Community Foundation* East Bay Fund for Artists Sam Mazza Foundation Theatre Bay Area Ca$H Grants Wallace A. Gerbode Foundation* Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Zellerbach Family Foundation* *Indicates multiple annual awards |
PRODUCTION AWARDS:
Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award Winner Outstanding Ensemble Performance "An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers" ~ Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award Nomination Best Sound, Music & Text "An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers" ~ PUSH Dance Festival Award Winner Audience Choice "In The Meantime" ~ Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award Nomination Best Sound, Music & Text "Beauty, THE Beast" |
DELINA'S TV PRODUCTION WORK:
Showrunner's Asst & Director's Asst. Grown-ish (Freeform) Insecure (HBO) Woke (Hulu) Grand Crew (NBC) None of the Above (ABC) FISCAL SPONSORS
Diamano Coura W. African Dance Company Dimensions Dance Theater Impact Hub, Oakland Youth Speaks Zaccho Dance Theatre |
Press & Published Articles
Photo by Bethanie Hines
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"Profound" - SF Chronicle, 2018
Published "A Call to Move" in In Dance, 2016 "Truth Telling With Love" Blog Written by Elizabeth Costello, 2016 Published in The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 6, No. 10 2016 Critic's Pick! East Bay Express, 2015 "Commanding... Fierce" SF Gate, 2014 "Irresistibly Lively" SF Gate, 2014 "Wonderfully Delicate" SF Gate, 2010 "A versatile performer who’s got the moves" Contra Costa Times, 2009 "...Knows how to move and modulate her voice to get the blood boiling." SF Bay Times, 2008 |
BARE SOLES BARE SOUL
Revealing the Soul of Women, Two Soles at a Time
Revealing the Soul of Women, Two Soles at a Time
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The above is the original trailer for Bare Soles Bare Soul (BSBS), a 4-part docuseries of intimate portraits which highlight the impact of African Dance on Black women in Oakland, CA. The women in the series reveal that their dance practice allows them to improve upon of a primary struggle: self-preservation. And therein lies the gem of BSBS. With dignity and vulnerability, these women maintain that they’ve practiced African dance for more than fifteen years each, in order to maintain their sense of balance, dignity and purpose beyond studio – in their homes, workplace, community and beyond.
After screening to live audiences of over 1000 people combined, we bring YOU Bare Soles Bare Souls online, to watch from the comfort of... wherever you may be! Don't wait. Watch now to be entertained, uplifted and inspired <3
After screening to live audiences of over 1000 people combined, we bring YOU Bare Soles Bare Souls online, to watch from the comfort of... wherever you may be! Don't wait. Watch now to be entertained, uplifted and inspired <3
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Images by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Co-Producer & Director of Photography, at the SOLD OUT Premiere of
BARE SOLES BARE SOUL at Oakland's Historic Grand Lake Theater
BARE SOLES BARE SOUL at Oakland's Historic Grand Lake Theater
