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Your Call: Krissy Keefer on 40 years of creating art to inspire social change

Krissy Keefer, choreographer and activist

How are artists addressing today’s social and political issues?

We’ll have a conversation with Krissy Keefer, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Dance Brigade. For 40 years, the iconic San Francisco multi-racial dance troupe of women has explored the intersection between art and social issues.

What role does art play in raising awareness of social and political issues?  Join us live at 10 am, on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, you

Guests

Krissy Keefer, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Dance Brigade

Web Resources:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: DANCE BRIGADE: GRACIAS A LA VIDA — 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Dance Brigade

Dance Mission Theatre

The Guardian: Baghdad's ballet school: a tiny island of creativity amid inescapable violence

The Washington Post: 'Bolshoi Babylon' Ballet's dark side meets Kremlin politics  

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.