Renowned dance artists holly johnston of Responsive Body and Ana María Álvarez from CONTRA-TIEMPO, both women of color, mothers, activists and community leaders, join forces to create Roots of Loving Us. This innovative, evening-length multimodal choreographic work uses somatic healing and ancestral technologies of dance, music and imagery. It explores origin stories shaped by biological uprooting, unchosen separation and the re-rooting of bodies, altering family tree DNA.

The dancers of CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater bring this work to life through their embodied knowledge of afro-latine movement practices, focusing on narratives of adoption, foster families, bioadaptive families, queer parents, single-parent families and diverse birthing experiences.

Through deep community collaborations, cross-sensory experiences, and innovative production elements, Roots of Loving Us is a powerful testament to lives transformed by the enduring choice to love forever.