Summer 2024

Futuro Summer Dance Intensive is back August 12th - 21st!

This 10-day intensive will offer rigorous dance and movement classes taught by CONTRA-TIEMPO artists and a roster of collaborators and accomplished guest artists from the field. We will train in salsa, house, afro-cuban, hip-hop, and more! You will learn these incredible ancestral movement practices, their radical histories, and engage with our Art as Social Action methodology. The program will culminate with a public community sharing that will be co-generated by the participants.

In these 10 days you can expect to be challenged physically, mentally, and emotionally as we push you to imagine a future that does not yet exist. Now is the time to stand deeper in our values, closer to our loved ones, and stronger in our community practices. Let’s learn from each other and lean on each other in the struggle for a more loving and just future, because we know none of us are free, until all of us are free.

Registration Deadline July 22

Sponsor a student

This summer, 40 students will engage in dance forms across the diaspora, nurture and deepen in their values, and connect with other artists activists from around the world. Your support will help to fund the tuition of one of these students! Choose your tier and donate what you can to support the learning, growth, and development of an eager dancer!

• Donate $500 to fund a 50% scholarship

• Donate $1000 to fund a full 100% scholarship

• Donate any amount of your choosing that would go toward supplementing the tuition of a deserving student.

Click the link below to sponsor a student to attend this life-changing program and help in the cultivation of the next generation of dance and movement leaders!

What is Futuro? 

In 2011, CONTRA-TIEMPO launched FUTURO. For its first three years, Futuro existed only as an intensive two-week dance program, held in the summer for high school and college-age youth from across the country. FUTURO has grown over the years to include multiple programming opportunities, professional artists, activists, and educators.

We currently facilitate 2 programs, our FUTURO Summer Dance Intensive and FUTURO Artivist Leadership Intensive.

During both programs participants become grounded in our CONTRA-TIEMPO technique that is rooted in Afro-Cuban traditional and social dance forms, as well as American street and contemporary forms, and it epitomizes art as social action, incorporating leadership development, community-building strategies, and social theater techniques such as Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed. At the conclusion of our programs participants come away with a greater sense of their power as artists and leaders in their communities.

Our Summer Dance Intensive is definitely a deeper dive into movement based practices and Art as Social Action. This is a 2 week rigorous program.

Our Artivist Leadership Intensive is more focused on Art as Social Action and the development of the artivist voice.

FUTURO is planting the seeds for the ‘futuro’, or future, of CONTRA-TIEMPO, thus ensuring the artistic sustainability of our senior company— all of our current company matriculated through the FUTURO program— but more importantly, FUTURO is supporting the leaders of the ‘presente’. The NOW.

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