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Tecsia Ross in August 2005. Ross Dance has presented full evenings of soulful modern
jazz choreography at Merce Cunningham in New York City, CounterPulse, Laney College,
Madrid in Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley. Ross repertory (Evening of Soulful Modern
Jazz {2005} and Testimony {2006}) has explored the challenges and empowerment of
spirituality, women gender roles, strength of sisterhood, and the power of freedom. The
intent behind Ross’ work is to highlight and comment on the social discourse that
individuals face in their relationships, spirituality, and society. Ross strides to invite the
audience into the stories of social discourse by connecting with their mind, emotions and
soul. In addition to presenting choreography to diverse audiences, Ross is committed to
community outreach and educating young dancers. The company offers beginning-to-
advanced level classes in hip hop, ballet, contemporary, and jazz and an annual summer
conference. We offer a low cost praise dance program to Christian youth from different
churches. We teach a free after school dance program at Bay Area Technology School to
youth from the ages of 11-14. In this program youth are taught to use dance as a way of
expression and self-discovery.
Lastly we give opportunities to young artists to present their works by inviting them to our
annual “Emerging Choreographer’s Festival” or having a young guest artist premiere his
or her work at our company performances. We have talented dancers and
choreographers that come from excellent training. Among our staff we have jazz instructor
Antoine Hunter who dances for Savage Jazz, Amy Malepeai who was an Oakland Ballet
dancer and now a Ross company member, praise dance instructor Shereel Washington,
co-director of IXALT and co-founder of Black Choreographer's Night. We are dedicated in
inviting individuals that come from diverse dance and ethnic backgrounds.
Ross Dance goal is to give dance back to the community since the community created it.
It is our vision to give dancers who have a dream and a passion to dance to share their
story.