[R]evolution | Fall Concert 2021 | CKDC

Video and Edit by Jessica Pierce

Consuming Kinetics Dance Company’s (CKDC) fall 2021 concert, [R]evolution, centers themes of justice and power, and offers a vision for a more just and humxne future. In [R]evolution, we explore topics including human trafficking, the black experience, capitalism, voting rights, gender equity, and mental health access. Our choreographers and artists investigate many of the challenges we face in our society today and use movement and performance to generate dialogue and action to address these systemic issues. [R]evolution was originally scheduled in the weeks prior to the 2020 national presidential election; through this performance, we hope to not only inspire electoral action, but to support broader activist efforts to dismantle the systems of oppression we live in, including racism, white supremacy, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, xenophobia, sexism, and ableism.

Through both our concerts and through our organizational mission and vision, CKDC hopes to model how every single person has the power to create change, even when it doesn't seem possible. More importantly, we seek to continue using dance and performance arts as vehicles for community organizing, culture-shifting, and public activism. We believe that not only is dance a catalyst for life in motion, but that dance can cultivate change on a larger scale, impact business practices, and encourage community members of all backgrounds and experiences towards social action.

**Any choreography featured in this video is intellectual property of Consuming Kinetics Dance Company and should not be reproduced without permission**

Choreographers represented (in order of first appearance) include Kat Norton, Arica Brown, Carmen Guynn, Ashreale McDowell and Rachel Strader.

Dancers represented (in order of first appearance) include Quinn Dorsey, Izzy Perry, Kaitlyn Whiteman, Coralie Francois, Ana Nishioka, Mary Meo, Kevin Lee, Bronwyn Dorsey, Sophia Huddleston, Carly Lucas, Cyrus Coble, Josie Starr, Jo Gerdes, Jazzmon Thomas, Hannah John, Tony L Marr Jr and Madeline Schneider.

We own no rights to the music featured in this video. This video uses copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. The Copyright Act of 1976 allows fair use for purposes such as teaching, scholarship and research.

Music featured in this video includes "Interlude 1" by alt-J.