Full Circle Dance company presents new and repertoire works that explore not only physical strength and energy, but also social, political, and historical power. The show will include the premieres of several new works commissioned in 2024. Collaborations with local designers and musical artists will make “From the Source of Our Power” a true celebration of Baltimore-based interdisciplinary innovation.

“What we love,” said Full Circle Dance Company Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs, “is the richness of this topic. There are so many facets of power to explore. We are interested in how power works in our daily lives, how it has shaped history, and in the transcendent power of dance to impact our communities, our artists, and our audience.”

A centerpiece of the show is Jacobs’s creative collaboration with acclaimed indigo dyer and multi-disciplinary artist Kibibi Ajanku and composer/recording artist Jasmin “Jazzo” Walters. The resulting new work draws on the history of indigo, its connections to slavery, and its spiritual value within the African Diaspora and in Baltimore. An original score by Walters honors this history as well as the power of art to lift us, to connect us, and to make change. Eight dancers will perform Jacobs’s eclectic and deeply personal choreography, which blends multiple dance traditions to evoke a layered story. Ajanku’s original costume designs, each a work of art, will reflect her unique, historically and indigenously informed practice.