Works & Process at The Guggenheim presents a live performance of Masterz at Work Dance Family with Courtney ToPanga Washington at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 31, 2021 at 8pm ET. Tickets go on sale 72 hours prior to each capacity-reduced performance; more information is available here: https://www.guggenheim.org/initiatives/works-process.
A legend within the ballroom community and founder of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture, leader of The House of Balenciaga, Black trans femme Creative Director of Masterz at Work Dance Family Courtney ToPanga Washington creates a new work fusing street dance, street jazz, ballroom, and hip-hop. Informed by her own experience being teased as a queer teenage personwho found refuge in dance, this new work conveys how her gender transition spurred transformative emotional, creative, and physical liberation. The dances she creates are a representation of resiliency, and through company outreach foster community and family in under-resourced areas of Brooklyn. This new commission will be the first time the company, traditionally self-funded, has received institutional support. Intended to uplift, inspire, and model positive behavior will feature Courtney Ashley, Lamell "Jay Parel" Clemons, Jai'Quin Coleman, DeAndre Cousley, Ulises "ChaCha" Estevez, Makeesha Hill, Rasheed "NewBorn" Lucas Jr., Dashaun "DayDay" Peals, Brian Starke, and Courtney ToPanga Washington with music by DJ Byrell The Great.
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