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Image Description: This image promotes “Ronya-Lee Anderson and the Light Factory” and Dance Place’s 45th Season. A central dancer in shimmering green executes a high leg extension. Other figures are on the dark stage. A large, golden “45” with sparkle accents is overlaid on the right. “HOME IS COMING” borders vertically, with celebration text below.

Photo Credit: David Dowling. 

Ronya-Lee Anderson and the Light Factory

June 20 at 7pm  & June 21 at 4pm

Flight! is an evening-length dance opera and pilgrimage that investigates marronage as a method of placemaking. The work explores the life and legacy of Queen Nanny, a great warrior and healer who led the Windward Jamaican maroons in fighting off the British army. Original, live music and text combine to hold inventive movement that melds West African, ballet, Afro-Caribbean, and modern dance, reflective of the mixed-race maroon communities so integral to our freedom now. Through performance, dream dinners, freedom walks, and mirror talks, Flight! invites witnesses into collective world-building, offering them both the space for being and the tools for doing. 

Thank you to our 2025-2026 Season Supporters!