The Brooklyn based dance troupe Urban Bush Women visit Cali in Colombia to conduct workshops aspart of a soft-politics initiative of the USA via its Bogotá Embassy with the collaboration and the Colombo Americano Centre in Cali. I tagged along on the last two and half days of the visit for the NYT. Here there is a generous edit from the photographs of which only one stamp-sized image was published in the paper.

9th – 11th March · 2010

For The New York Times

Contemporary Dance

Catherine Dénécy and Paloma McGregor (centre) lead pupils through steps in a dance class in the Colombo American Center.

A dance workshop with Colombian pupils in the Colombo American Center.

Meghan Bowden & Paloma McGregor in a rehearsal in Escuela Incolballet. (Marjani Forté on the left).

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (artistic director of the group) leads a dance class with UBW and Colombian pupils in the Javieriana University.

Keisha Turner with UBW and Colombian pupils in a dance workshop in the Javieriana University.

Performing to Parliament’s “Chocolate City”. Colombo American Centre, Cali. Colombia.

Meghan Bowden during a rehearsal in Escuela Incolballet.