Urban Ballet

Houston City Dance and Sonkiss’d Dance Theater present Urban Ballet, December 3-4 and 10-11 at City Dance Studio.

Inspired by the music and life of 2Pac, Sherese Campbell’s Urban Ballet uses  jazz, hip-hop, modern, pointe and tap to explore what it is to be black in an America still wounded by racial division.

The work portrays the different experiences in a “ghetto” neighborhood, using City Dance Company and, guest company, SonKiss’d to create a fusion of styles complex enough to depict the role of dance, music, sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, family, and personal struggle in the day-to-day life of these under-served, over-looked black neighborhoods across the country.

The project is funded in part by Mayor Turner’s City’s Initiative Grant.