2009 Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival!: Saturday May 30 , 2009

Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival
Performance Workshop

The Malclom X Jazz Arts Festival Performance Workshop (PW) is a community dance and theater program located in Oakland California. With it's roots in African American culture this training program prepares youth to be an integral part of Oakland's annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival now in it's 6th year. An ongoing program, the PW teaches dance, theater, spoken word, stage production as well as social and political education.The dance curriculm has an emphasis on history with workshops ranging from traditional African dance, Lindy Hop and other dance styles of the Harlem Renaissance, old school funk and boogaloo styles of the 1970's into today's new school Hip Hop dance styles. The theater aspect offers workshops on stage production, poetry and, social/political education that focuses of critical thinking and examining the cycle of violence in our community. All of these workshops culminate to the annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival. In addition to the festival students perform through out the Bay Area on a regular basis.