SAMPU FOR SAMMAY
Spirit. Lineage. Embodiment.
Support the Movement. Sustain the Future.
We are celebrating a whole decade of radical embodied work,
transformative performance, and purposeful community-building.
Join us in visioning towards the worlds know are possible.
Release CTRL+Shift
a movement practice for paradigm-shifting times
Saturday, November 21
4:30-6:30pm
BANDALOOP Studios
1601 18th St, Oakland, CA 94607
How do we understand our body in relation to movements for collective healing and liberation? In these paradigm-shifting times, how can we access the inherent joy and ancestral resilience in our DNA? Together, we will investigate what it means to embody sacred reciprocity through our corporeality - drawing upon the gifts of breath, movement, sound, somatics, and contemplative practice.
This workshop is intended for all bodies. While exercises draw upon improvisation, no previous dance experience is required.
Registration is required. Space is limited.
Please email info@sammay.art if you have any questions.
WHO I AM
I make dances that
create infinite possibilities
and usher in radical futurities.
I am an unapologetic brown femme navigating life through movement-based art, experimental performance, and spiritual practice. A diasporic child with an unending curiosity towards embodiments of liberation — I seek to unravel the layers of deceit we’ve inherited from colonization. My works encounter that which is often too difficult for us to speak of. Therefore, my invitation to you: let us sit with it, move through it, and be moved by it — for this work is only made possible in community.
Through re-membering, I am a bridge of reclamation for the generations past and those yet to come. I believe dance holds potentialities for us to heal, transform, and be more fully alive in this waking life. Beyond this — I simply desire for my community to feel whole while oceans away from our ancestral lands.
The Work
BLOOD
A young brown girl awakens to reclaim her ancestral inheritance from Maharlika. A descendant of balyana (priestesses) - believed to have been fed to the crocodiles by Spanish colonizers who feared their unmatched prowess. She re-emerges from the shadows to lead her people into the reckoning for collective liberation.
HINGA
HINGA (BREATHE) is a ritual performance film and time capsule honoring the sacred grief, life force, and resiliency of the Filipinx community in the Bay Area during COVID-19. Honoring the natural landscape of Yelamu / San Francisco and the spirit of SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District - this is a community ritual for healing, release, and dreaming for the future we are ushering in.
ritual for thrivation no. 2
How do we move from a perpetual stasis of survival to palpable thrivation? In a world that has forgotten its inherent responsibility to the earth and each other, ritual for thrivation no. 2 poses ancestral reverence, intergenerational healing, and urban-indigenous futurism as urgent and fundamental to alleviating our current climate crisis.