Monday, November 27, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Sweet Benevolence - Oakland Secondline Ancestral Celebration
video clip: courtesy of @nzoCALIFA
Brass band: Led by Harold "Homeboy" Wilson
Twilight Brass Band & Community with
Big Chief Ray "Hatchet" Blazio, Wild Apache
Mardi Gras Indian Nation of New Orleans
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
nzoCALIFA: #Dance Mediumship on the airwaves
#danceyourdestiny: I share with my Students often, the mediumship of service through #Dance - I utilize my Dance like a travel Visa often answering the call to inform agencies, communities and global audiences of the powerFULL transcendental effects of DANCE. Dance mediumships serve to advance Community Empowerment, promote Cultural legacy and uplift the personal development of fellow Artist agencies.
Brought to you from our archives and still living, listen in as SiriusXM Shade 45 "Sway in the Morning" broadcasts live in our home turf #Oakland, California as my kinship shares #Shine and his personal #Dance testimony; And together we're giving #Oakland LIFE through the DANCE! #RiteOn
~R. Califa, Nzo Califa Dance Works
~R. Califa, Nzo Califa Dance Works
#stepUPyourservicetodance #danceyourdestiny
*clip courtesy of @SwaysUniverse on youtube
Monday, May 8, 2017
Monday Media -nzo.archive: Fua Dia Congo 2009
R. Califa Diaspora Dance Specialist Alumnus of Fua Dia Congo/Diata Diata |
FUA DIA CONGO [FUA] was founded by World-renown Master Artist and Cultural Ambassador Ta Malonga Casquelourd of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo in kinship with respected Community leaders and scholars of East Palo Alto along with his Congolese cohorts Ma Boukaka and Paul N'Goumba [all give praise to life]. His visionary leadership carried many important veins that bred life into notable Institutions for erecting arts preservation and academic excellence like, San Francisco State University's Ethnic Dance Department, San Francisco City Celebrations, Mandeleo Institute and Everybody's Creative Arts Center. Established in 1977, FUA is a non-profit Teaching and Performing Arts Institution; It's Company repertoire reflects religious, social and military traditions of the Kongo Kingdom, the Company's legacy extends itself to a global Student constituency, epic Company Repertoire productions, celebrated Dance and Drum Camps from California to Maui, Hawaii and signature Dance and Drum Class programming at the historic Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland, CA.
ARCHIVE MEDIA FEATURE:
Presentation at the Midpen Media Center Studio Series, January 2009
Fua Dia Congo
Congolese Dance Ensemble
"Our Congolese Heritage"
Artistic Director: Muisi-Kongo Malonga Musical Director: Kiazi T. Malonga
Guest Master Artist: Sandor Diabankouezi Producers: Karen Adams, Muisi-Kongo Malonga
- Kimvuka - A Village gathering
- Mayaka - Company
- Ganza - Company
- Bisiki Bia Ngoma - Drum Core
- Dance Moumbolo - Company
- Essombi - Balet Kizingu Youth Ensemble
- Kingoli - Company
*program credits drawn from the video program
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Mardi Gras time: Brothers BRING IT on Bourbon
Mardi Gras time -- Delivering more than just sanitation service to New Orleans neighborhoods, these Brothers bringing sweet #Footwork, Dance servic up Bourbon street in the historic French Quarter. #Dance where everyday life is EVERY day life in New Orleans - ya' heard?! It's what we LOVE about our kinship New Orleans behbe. This clip caught by pedicab driver Paul McCaige, reported by Chelsea Brasted for NOLA.com.
Now tell us, "How will YOU step Up your service to Dance?!
Sunday, February 5, 2017
nzoCALIFA: #danceyourdestiny
Make moves that invoke Ancestral praise, honor your Ancestors. ~nzoCALIFA www.workingmylines.com |
Friday, February 3, 2017
In the Dance: February is for Family History
Why WE Dance, How WE Dance and When?
Stay tuned, plug-in and keep an open ear to Ancestral teachings channeled through our kinship platforms throughout the month of February, invoking your next steps towards amplifying your story. Next level your service to the #Dance. #RiteOn ~ @nzoCALIFA
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
nzoCALIFA: Black History Month - Amplify yOUR story in the Dance
@nzoCALIFA: Trust every #Dance step you take; Be intentional with your movement; Dare to choreograph your BEST life co-creating with the wisdom of the divine, giving service to your destiny.
Don't know where to start?! Be inspired by the day I made it my mission to DANCE MY DESTINY creating a next level initiative to honor my Ancestors and to invoke Ancestral healing; this was the impetus of @nzoCALIFA #Dancestory, in the field, libraries, studios, homes and still in motion...
*apsire higher*
AND TAKING NAMES TO AMPLIFY yOUR STORY.
See how far I've come and where I'm going
and you can too - #nzoCALIFAncestry
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