SHOUT

Join our ensemble of performers as they sing, dance, and teach through storytelling. Learn about the ring shout — a powerful practice blending song and rhythmic movement created by enslaved communities in the 1700s and 1800s. They combined various religious practices of Europe and Africa, creating a cultural tradition that became iconically American.

Connect their syncopated musical rhythms from the past to the present and learn how music can be a form of joyful resistance in times of oppression.