Performance | Healing Intimacy

MoAD hosts the Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now
Celebrating 20 years of Black Arts & Culture

Spirit of Sankofa: Bridging the Legacy of Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century (BCM) & Black Choreographers Festival (BCF)
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Healing Intimacy - a special performance event

Choreographers/collaborators Dazaun Soleyn and Algin “Align” Sterling create and perform an engaging structured movement & music improvisation in response to the Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy exhibition as well as deepen their seminal work Healing Intimacy, into a new more immersive piece that activates the MoAD gallery spaces – creating a new environment expressing healing, home, community, black empowerment, and love.

About the Artists

Dazaun Soleyn

With an intention to create art that aims to illuminate the human soul, Dazaun Soleyn (he/she/they)(@dazaun_s), has presented work in the Bay Area since 2013. He received a BFA in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of South Florida and continued his dance education at the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program.

Recently, Dazaun graduated from California College of the Arts with a Masters in Architecture (MArch). Dazaun is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, a Gyrotonic Instructor, Reiki Master and Apprentice Herbalists. His mediums include dance, architecture, sculpture and interactive installations. https://dazaunsoleyn.org/home

Algin "Align" Sterling

Algin (DJ Align) Ford Sterling (@alginaligns) is a DJ, dancer, producer and curator from San Francisco. Algin has trained, performed and traveled within various styles / companies and artists on both the East & West coast and has a heavy focus on community based projects. Algin was the founder & co-director of his own company ‘UFO Movement’ in the Bay Area for 4 years before migrating with that company to NYC.

He has performed at The Guggenheim & the Joyce Theatre in NYC with company Les Ballet Afrik in styles West African, Afrobeat, House & Vogue where he also served as the Musical Director for the company the last 5 years.He also performed with Bill T Jones, trained in Modern Dance and Contemporary with Nina Haft at CSUEB and Hip Hop with Patrick Cruz of ‘The Company’ where he contributed choreography for many years.

Algin's purpose as an artist is to serve as an advocate for black & brown youth and to be a reflection for his community.

BCF’s 20th Anniversary made possible through the support of SFAC’s Dream Keeper Initiative, SFAC CEI, Zellerbach Family Foundation; community partners: MoAD, SFPL, MSP Galleries, Dance Mission Theater, SADC. Presented & Curated by AAAPAC and K*Star*Productions.