we are a dance group based in southern california that centers wellbeing, culture, art, and change through process and performance.

OUR MISSION

To generate engagement and practice in ancestral knowledge and storytelling in relationship with our understanding of core values, and wellbeing for ourselves, families, and communities; and to hold space for people to be their most sovereign selves, to ignite innovation for future generations to be multifaceted creators and leaders.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Past Events
Maraming Salamat @napafasa @sipacares for inviting us to perform for the inaugural AAPI Solidarity Conference: a Youth Empowerment Event! 🙌🏽 It was a great experience to share visions of solidarity through dance with you all and youth especially,
We exist to generate enrichment and a sense of wholeness through the dance space and practice. 🪞 To move from a place of gratitude as a component in achieving a state of grace; To exercise the mind through coordination, choreography, rhythm, and
No matter the stage or entity, the core of PPG is movement for everyone. Why?🪞 Because movement heals, and is objective. There’s no denying it. Our collectivity came about in 2017 as a response to create communal healing spaces through a pro
Our Why 🪞 Because the teachings continue to refine generation after generation; Cultural, ancestral practice is a way of life. Core values link us to a streamline of navigating leadership, self, and communal accountability that goes back generati
This week we welcome Sami Akuna aka Cocoa Chandelier to Riverside! 👑 A person of many hats and facets, Sami creates performance work that interweaves storytelling, Hawaiʻi herstories, indigeneity, lineage, and becoming. This week’s workshops
About Our Processes: With art & change as centerpoints for our work, our approach to creativity from the internal world to our external is embedded with collective inquiry in understanding elements of our own human transformations and development
Earlier this month, @ucr_dance hosted the annual Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside Symposium, and through this, my class experienced a workshop with @jgrayjnr of @atamiradancecompany. Afterwards followed a moving performance of eulogy and rememb
What Makes Us Who We Are 🪞 🌊 WELLBEING is our foundation. It allows us to listen to our mind, body, and spiritʻs ways of letting us know if we are on or off balance. Cultivating self-awareness and a relationship to understanding our own needs goes
There is a world of remembrance and possibility in the contemporary space of Filipinx/o dance and martial arts. Remembrance of a time in history, particularly during the 1760s, when both were interrupted by Spanish government, and found their emerge

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