FUTURO Artivist Leadership Intensive (HYBRID)

April 1-3, 2022

3-7pm Fri. 4/1
9am-3pm Sat. 4/2
9am-3pm Sun. 4/3

An Immersive 3-Day Experience

A 3-day intensive where artistry and activism are one. During our time together you will be challenged creatively, artistically, and physically. Movement classes will be taught by CONTRA-TIEMPO artists and a roster of incredible leaders and guest teachers from the field. In this program, you will have the space to develop your artivist voice, discuss socio-political history and current events, and explore how Art as Social Action can guide us to a more just and loving future.

2021

FUTURO: EMBODIED REVOLUTION

CONTRA-TIEMPO Futuro is a space that we have grown over the last decade, to foster the next generation of CONTRA-TIEMPO, to collectively create a future of more love and justice, and as a space to support the development of the leaders of the presente. The NOW. It is critical that we build with our bodies, collective spaces of radical imagination and joy-making: revolution embodied!

Spring 2021 Virtual Futuro Event

Join us this Spring 2021, for a four-day, virtual Futuro event. Together we will train rigorously and become grounded in the techniques and rooted forms of CONTRA-TIEMPO's work: salsa, afro-cuban, afro-modern, improvisation, hip-hop grooves, and breaking. We will also develop a daily practice of art as social action, incorporating leadership development, community-building strategies, historical/political grounding, and delve into the body as a space of healing and power building. Participants and company members will come away with a greater sense of our power and energized as artists and leaders!

2019

Snapshot of the 2019 Summer Dance Intensive

The 2019 theme was Joy as a Form of Resistance. We explored social dances of the US and Afro-Latin Diaspora: hip-hop, samba de roda and samba reggae, LA-style Salsa, Salsa Rueda, Rumba, Comparsa, Festejo, and modern. In our Art-as-Social-Action workshops, we looked at critical race theory, intersectionality, alternate models of wealth and capital, and the power of practicing gratitude.

Participant Demographics 2019

Gender: 78% women | 10% men | 3% non-binary | 6% other genders
Location: Hailed from CA, DC, TX, FL, CT, NY, and AZ
Ethnicity: Were 35% Latinx | 28% Black/African-American | 10% mixed-ethnicity | 10% White | 7% Asian | 3% Haitian American
100% were POWERFUL! :-)

Testimonies from 2019 SDI participants:

“It’s a beautiful celebration of community, love & joy and we ALL need that!”
“It’s more than a “dance intensive.” This program is designed for anyone who is seeking to do some self growth/development.”
“I think that artists (dancers, movers, art-makers) should have the grounded awareness that Futuro cultivates in its participants to channel our art into our communities and social issues that we are surrounded by!”
“If you want to learn to make a change. Come to Futuro.”
“I recommend Futuro to others because it’s empowering, life-changing, and unique. There are not many places where you can be free to be who you are and learn from incredible, gifted dancers Afro-Latin dance and also learn how to use art as activism What you learn here will be very important for the rest of your life. You heal and you get to experience what a just, equitable country can look like.”

2016

Past testimony from 2016 SDI participants:

Because of Futuro... I am REBORN!!...I've learned what my "powers" are...I can embrace my voice and the voice that is created through my movement...I am more of an unapologetic dancer...
I was angry a lot before realizing how powerful dance could be in the movement for change. It has been a blessing to find peace through Futuro.
Before Futuro I'd lost hope in action-oriented community-building. But I have seen what community healing is capable of.
I am now more trusting of myself, confident in who I have become as a dancer, scholar, artist, activist, and lover to all.