BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts,Dance/Theater,Event Highlights DESCRIPTION:A Visions and Voices Signature Event\n\nADMISSION:\nAdmission i s free.\n\nRSVP\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nCelebrate 20 years of Visions and Voices\, 10 years of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance\, and the legacy of Glo rya Kaufman at USC\, in Los Angeles\, and throughout the global dance commu nity with a dazzling triple bill of companies from L.A.’s vibrant dance sce ne. Also celebrating two decades of exciting work\, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater and the Versa-Style Street Dance Company have performed in mu ltiple Visions and Voices and Kaufman School events and workshops. JA Colle ctive was founded by members of USC Kaufman’s inaugural class of 2019. The performances will be followed by an on-stage dance party with USC Kaufman s tudent and DJ Ninabutterfly!\n\n> Led by founding artistic director Ana Mar ía Alvarez since 2005\, CONTRA-TIEMPO is a multilingual activist dance thea ter company dedicated to transforming the world through dance by building c ommunity\, facilitating dialogue\, and moving audiences to imagine what is possible. They will perform an excerpt from joyUS justUS\, a powerful work that highlights joy as the ultimate expression of resistance.\n \n\n \n\n> Started in 2018 by Jordan Johnson and Aidan Carberry when they were USC Kau fman students\, JA Collective blends hip hop\, theatre\, and contemporary d ance into a distinctive style that blurs dance and theatre\, rehearsal and performance\, and reality and dreams. They will perform Castling the Unknow n\, inspired by the events of Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky in the 1972 W orld Chess Championship in Reykjavik\, Iceland.\n \n\n \n\n> Established by Los Angeles natives and artistic directors Jackie “Miss Funk” Lopez and Le igh “Breeze-Lee” Foaad in 2005\, Versa-Style Street Dance Company seeks to empower underserved and marginalized groups worldwide through the movement and culture of hip hop dance. They will perform an excerpt from Freemind Fr eestyle\, a high–energy\, improvised work that features such street dance s tyles as locking\, popping\, hip hop\, and krump.\n \n\n\n\nBios:\n\nLed by founding artistic director Ana María Alvarez\, CONTRA-TIEMPO’s mission is to create a future where all people are awakened to a sense of themselves a s artists and social change agents who move through the world with compassi on\, confidence\, and joy. They create a new physical\, visual\, and sonic vocabulary that collages Salsa\, Afro-Cuban\, hip-hop\, and contemporary da nce with theater\, compelling text\, and original music to bring dynamic mu ltimodal experiences to the concert stage. CONTRA-TIEMPO takes an uncomprom isingly radical approach to the ways in which artists function within commu nities and create their work\, intentionally engaging diverse audiences\, c ultivating dancer leaders\, and centering stories not traditionally heard o n the concert stage.\n\nJA Collective gained prominence in 2018 through the ir choreography and direction of music videos and short films that amassed millions of views online. They are perhaps best known for collaborating wit h the band half•alive\, shaping the group’s music videos\, television perfo rmances\, and international tours. Their work has extended to artists inclu ding Talking Heads\, Frank Ocean\, Future\, Paul McCartney\, Brockhampton\, David Archuleta\, Nikki\, Bishop Briggs\, and Matt Champion\, as well as b rands such as Apple\, Gucci\, Allstate\, Belvedere Vodka\, Snapchat\, Pull & Bear\, and Invisalign. They’ve also contributed to projects by artists an d filmmakers like Taika Waititi\, Olivia Wilde\, Mike Mills\, Shia Labeouf\ , Saiorse Ronan\, and Margaret Qualley. Johnson and Carberry perform and to ur globally in Friends of Forsythe\, a new work curated by William Forsythe \, which they also helped choreograph. Their collaboration is a study in co ntrast and cohesion—bridging spiritual\, cultural\, and aesthetic divides t o better understand not only each other\, but the world.\n\nThe Versa-Style Street Dance Company was founded by Los Angeles natives and co–artistic di rectors Jackie “Miss Funk” Lopez and Leigh “Breeze-Lee” Foaad to promote\, empower\, and celebrate the artistry of hip hop and street dance culture. N amed “Los Angeles’ Best Dance Troupe for Hip Hop Empowerment” by the LA Wee kly\, Versa-Style is recognized for its electrifying performances and inspi ring engagement activities for schools and local communities. Consisting of committed\, highly skilled street dance artists and educators representing the diversity and beautiful complexity of Los Angeles\, Versa-Style harnes ses the exhilarating energy of street dance on the concert stage for an unf orgettable evening of dance.\n\nCurrently a senior at the USC Kaufman Schoo l of Dance\, Ninabutterfly is a DJ\, dancer\, visual artist\, choreographer \, stylist\, and movement director whose multifaceted ear allows her to ble nd genres and sounds behind the decks and on the dance floor.\n\nPresented by USC Visions and Voices and the USC Kaufman School of Dance.\n\nPhoto (CO NTRA-TIEMPO): Steve Wylie DTEND:20250919T030000Z DTSTAMP:20260419T120905Z DTSTART:20250919T020000Z GEO:34.020914;-118.285537 LOCATION:Bovard Auditorium (ADM) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Decades of Dance in L.A.: Celebrating 20 Years of Visions and Voice s and 10 Years of USC Kaufman – Featuring CONTRA-TIEMPO\, Versa-Style\, and JA Collective UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50464282403045 URL:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/la-grooves-decades-of-dance-at-usc-celeb rating-20-years-of-visions-and-voices-and-10-years-of-the-kaufman-school-of -dance-with-contra-tiempo-versa-style-and-ja-collective END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR