With support from the California Arts Council, Culture Flow Projects will be able to cover a third of the yearly lease of physical space, PiYoDa Flow, for all of our programming in Arts Education, Performing Arts, and cover one part-time admin position. PiYoda Flow is located in South Los Angeles and has been engaging the community (the youth and adults), in an ongoing collaboration with Culture Flow Projects’ programs for two years. The admin position helps with coordinating all of our youth programming operations on site and at various schools in the area, as well as the performing arts residency programming and performance engagements. Our current admin, director Vanessa Verdoodt, has worked full-time on a volunteer basis for two full years.
We offer:
– Weekly free and/or affordable dance classes and workshops with nationally and internationally recognized dance educators for youth and adults.
– On and off site outreach arts education programs at various institutions in our area of South Los Angeles.
– Space to research the history, origins and influences of Afro Diasporic Dance forms such as House, Afro Cuban, Hustle, Salsa, Timba, Capoeira, Samba, Sabar, Dances of Guinea, Togo, Benin and Contemporary dance practices, while allowing for the organic growth of the style through consistent multi-cultural influences in practice.
– Bi-weekly open dance sessions ‘Open House’ for dancers to train, practice, and develop their craft.
– Larger social dance events and forum discussions at various indoor and outdoor venues.
– A residency program for street and social dance artists (often referred as Hip Hop artists) interested in dance theater/experimental choreography and performances.
– Free and/or affordable wellness classes in yoga, pilates and sound bath meditation

