Adia Tamar Whitaker & Àṣẹ Dance Theater

Adia Tamar Whitaker’s project Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began. Following The Road to Ose Tura is a four chapter, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker’s choreography and film projections of Sampson’s work.

Caretakers of Land/Land Acknowledgement: Lisjan Ohlone

Estimated Artist Fee: $24,000 - 3 performances, no residency | $26,000 - 4 twenty-five-minute performances per day, 3 day max, no residency | $29,000 - performance + residency leading up to or following performances