Anna Martone and OreOluwa Badaki

OreOluwa Badaki’s movement practice, writing, and research examines how power moves through bodies and spaces within food and land systems. Currently a Research Fellow at Teachers’ College, Columbia University, OreOluwa’s ongoing projects focus on embodied understandings of place and center African diasporic dance practices connected to food and land. She is grateful for the generous and dynamic Philly dance community that she has been a part of for the past eight years, performing, practicing, and teaching with dancers across various genres including West African, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian, Hip Hop, House, and Contemporary. She has performed and taught across the US as well as in Brazil, South Africa, Ghana and Samoa. She co-produces and co-hosts the Groovin’ Griot podcast and her multimodal work has been supported by the Center for Experimental Ethnography, SACHS Center for Performing Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Anna Martone (she/her) has moved through many artistic iterations, guided by movement but delighted by the endless mediums to explore. While currently deepening her practice in a dance/movement therapy master’s program, she is expanding her creative voice through new styles of movement, community, and collaboration. She is in the beginning stages of exploring the world of house dance and has been lucky enough to have found herself amongst a sea of incredible artists, each with unique and powerful voices. As time moves on, she is beginning to recognize the strength in harmonizing her voice with those who inspire, support, and push her forward. Finding depth in collaboration, beauty in connection, and strength in stillness, Anna is beginning to uncover the echoes of a new voice.