Black Voices Boston: Our Stories in Words and Movement

Black Voices Boston is a storytelling and movement project featuring seven short works based on personal stories co-created by seven individuals from Boston’s Black communities and Afro-Colombian choreographer Rafael Palacios. The works premiere in a virtual showcase on December 6; we invite you to watch and share these meaningful moments!

Rafael Palacios — Artistic Director of acclaimed Afro-Colombian dance company Sankofa Danzafro, whose motto is “dance to be heard, rather than to be seen” — created the process among his company in Colombia to build community, to keep his artists engaged during COVID-19 lockdowns, and to honor personal stories inspired by racial justice movements around the world. Black Voices tapped company members’ ancestral roots to create works that connected stories of Afro-Colombian peoples to those of the African continent and its Diaspora.

Commissioned here by Celebrity Series of Boston, Black Voices begins an international journey to create a body of work that is anchored by words and motion, and built on ideals of social bonding, personal growth, and the positioning of local cultures in global dynamics.