DIANA ROSS DREAM - 2022

A huge THANK YOU to Soulpepper Theatre and The Young Center for the Performing Arts for sharing your space with us for DIANA ROSS DREAM! Thank you to everyone who came to watch the work-in-progress showing.

In the summer of 2015, I went to sleep with a question and woke to the memory of a vivid dream of Diana Ross on Broadway, dancing in the center of a sea of other Black dancers, everyone wearing magnificent rose gold costumes of various materials. It felt like an instruction—like a call.  

In DIANA ROSS DREAM we are dancing the following:

Feeling cherished. 
Verve.
The Quiet.
Pure channel. 
Psychic boldness.
Affection. 
Awe.
Relaxedness.
Encounter. 
Bewilderment. 
Miracle.
Mystery.  
Black being-together. 
Vesselhood.
Tone.

Dancemakers has been supporting the development of Aisha Sasha John's work DIANA ROSS DREAM since before the pandemic in 2019.

Team

Choreography & concept: Aisha Sasha John

Performance: Aisha Sasha John, Tyra Temple-Smith, Devon Snell, Marcus "Ademi" Paris-Johnson

Outside eye: Dedra McDermott and Evan Webber

Lighting design: Sam Skynner

Sound/Music: New Chance (Victoria Cheong) and Amy Manusov

Costumes: Nyda Kwazowsky

Production Management: Evan Webber & Vishmayaa Jey

Curation: Amelia Ehrhardt (in 2019 as part of the previous Dancemakers 3-year Residency Program)

Photo by Henry Chan