Afro Movement and Fitness Winter/Spring Guest Artist Series: KONTARA MORPHIS/Featuring Contemporary Dance

Name: Afro Movement and Fitness Winter/Spring Guest Artist Series: KONTARA MORPHIS/Featuring Contemporary Dance
Start: 2026-04-08T18:30:00-0400
End: 2026-04-08T20:00:00-0400
Location: Legacy Arts Studio

Wed, Apr 8, 6:30pm - 8pm EDT

Legacy Arts Studio

Pittsburgh PA, United States

The Legacy Arts Project

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Dates: One WEDNESDAY per month beginning in January through April 2026

DANIELLE HOWARD: January 16th 6:30-8:00 pm

NICK DANIELS: February 11th 6:30-8:00 pm

LATREA REMBERT: March 4th 6:30-8 pm

KONTARA MORPHIS: April 8th 6:30-8:00 pm

Cost: Adults $10 • Elders and Youth $5

Location: Legacy Arts Studio – 7227 Tioga St – Pittsburgh, PA 15208

Our Guest Artist Series goes beyond a single class — it enriches both Legacy and the community. Artists from near and far share their expertise, giving attendees professional-level instruction, creative inspiration, and the chance to collaborate directly with accomplished artists. These collaborations strengthen Legacy’s teaching artists, foster meaningful partnerships, and create a foundation for future projects and community-driven programs. All sessions feature live drumming, enhancing the connection between movement, music, and everyone involved.

Kontara Morphis is a Pittsburgh-based choreographer and Artistic Director of Kontara Morphis Dance Collective. Her work is known for being emotionally resonant and visually striking, and she collaborates with numerous arts organizations throughout the region. She recently produced and directed UNDERLAND x Alice at the New Hazlett Theater as part of the 2023–2024 CSA Performance Series and choreographed both the models and a dance work for Fashion Africana, produced by FashionAFRICANA, at Heinz Hall.

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The Legacy Arts Project is a place where you can learn the artistic traditions of Africa & the diaspora, while adding your life experience from other places.

The mission of the Legacy Arts Project, Inc. is to preserve, promote, and create Africana arts that honor the history, heritage, and cultures of Africa diaspora in ways that advance healing and wellness, education, and community empowerment.

The origins of the LAP begin with its founder Linda ‘Imani’ Barrett and her love of the arts. An avid dancer and arts enthusiast, she was influenced by Selma Burke, an artist during the Harlem Renaissance, who created an arts center in Pittsburgh as an arm of her art center in Harlem, New York. There Sister Imani was exposed to a range of art forms that allowed her to experience the power of the African legacy. Around the same time, Sister Imani joined the Pittsburgh Black Theater Dance Ensemble, led by the late Bob Johnson. Here they experimented with art, delving into dance forms inspired by Africans throughout the Diaspora.

These experiences became a part of the foundation and formation of the LAP. From this platform, Sister Imani was able to bring together artists from the community to gather and share in expression. Drummers and dancers, elder and youth, played rhythms and danced. Interspersed with that has been spoken word, poetry, singing, and visual art. The LAP has been a space used to cultivate and share a variety of art forms, bringing the community together to grow.

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