Testimony

Artistic director Tecsia Ross brings her powerful Ross Dance Company for their LA debut in Testimony. Deeply influenced by the African American experience living & dancing in Oakland and her background in psychology, Tecsia Ross’ take on the modern/jazz idiom of concert dance goes beyond just pure entertainment. Rooted in strong spiritual beliefs and interest her community as a whole brings Ross Dance Company choreography to higher ground. Five powerful women each with distinguished backgrounds in dance fire up the Madrid with passion, cultural awareness, spiritual strength and visceral movement through choreography by Tecsia Ross, Paris Adkins, and Barry Webster set to poetry, vocal styling by Bobby McFerrin, and Stevie Wonder’s music.