Who Are We? We're Amatory Dance Crew!
The Best Dance Crew to hit Santa Barbara!
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AMATORY DANCE CREW is a fusion dance troupe characterized by its fluid assimilation of different dance traditions and its commitment to radical inclusiveness. Amatory Dance Crew was created to welcome all dancers, both trained and non-trained, regardless of gender, race, body type, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. It was founded upon the principles of participatory democracy, whereby dancers of different styles and backgrounds teach one another their styles of dance. Within this model, individual strengths and weaknesses are all valued and utilized to create a more powerful whole. Amatory Dance Crew has impacted campus culture by breaking down identity stereotypes and enacting a model for inclusiveness and collaboration across the diversity divides. In many ways, it promotes the vision of an ideal society beyond the scope of performance events and the microcosm of UCSB. Bashir Hassan (founder) explains, “this team has forever changed my life and leads me to believe that one day it is quite possible for society to mirror this kind of interaction.”
Styles include but are not limited to hip hop, jazz, break dancing, modern, ballet, lyrical hip hop, acrobatics, contemporary, and many more….
We perform all over Santa Barbara with occasional performances in LA. Check us out on Youtube!
Check us out on Facebook!
AMATORY DANCE CREW is a fusion dance troupe characterized by its fluid assimilation of different dance traditions and its commitment to radical inclusiveness. Amatory Dance Crew was created to welcome all dancers, both trained and non-trained, regardless of gender, race, body type, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. It was founded upon the principles of participatory democracy, whereby dancers of different styles and backgrounds teach one another their styles of dance. Within this model, individual strengths and weaknesses are all valued and utilized to create a more powerful whole. Amatory Dance Crew has impacted campus culture by breaking down identity stereotypes and enacting a model for inclusiveness and collaboration across the diversity divides. In many ways, it promotes the vision of an ideal society beyond the scope of performance events and the microcosm of UCSB. Bashir Hassan (founder) explains, “this team has forever changed my life and leads me to believe that one day it is quite possible for society to mirror this kind of interaction.”
Styles include but are not limited to hip hop, jazz, break dancing, modern, ballet, lyrical hip hop, acrobatics, contemporary, and many more….
We perform all over Santa Barbara with occasional performances in LA. Check us out on Youtube!
What's Coming Up:* May 30th Feel Good End of the Year Dinner
*June 1st Black Graduation Ceremony |
Past Performances- Gauchella (5-12-12)- Relay for Life (5-11-12) - DNA Imagery Presents: Root 5 (5-6-12) - TASA Night Market (5-4-12) - Amatory Spring Auditions! (4/21 & 4/22) - Gender Bender Fashion Show (4-9-12) - Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Inc., Yout Leadership Conference (11-5-11) - UCSB Activities Fair 2011! (10-12-11) - Mid Autumn Moon Festival with VSA (9-24-11) - Black Studies Grad Ceremony (6-3-11) - UCSB Yard Show (5-14-11) - Relay for Life (5-13-11) - Spring Insight (4-9-11) - VSA/Circle K Sponsored "Dancing for Life" (4-1-11) - Dance Marathon (2-26-11) - Men's Basketball Game (2-16-11) - 13th Annual Multicultural Show (2-5-11) - Students of Color Conference (11-20-10) - Black Family Weekend (10-23-10) - Activities Fair (10-20-10) - Battle of the Orgs - Black Studies Graduation - UCSB Annual Yard Show - KP Showcase - Hip Hop Summit, Opening for the Groovaloos |