Can Step Afrika! out do another performance? Storytelling with Photography is an art…Napoleon Complex Project captures the Home Performance Series…

Step Afrika is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Founded in December 1994, the company is critically-acclaimed for its efforts to promote an understanding of and appreciation for stepping and the dance tradition’s use as an educational tool for young people worldwide. Step Afrika reaches tens of thousands of Americans each year and has performed on many stages in North & South America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean, to learn more about Step Afrika! log onto www.stepafrika.com

In an innovative collaboration between the visual and performing arts, Step Afrika!—Washington DC’s highly celebrated dance company – partners with The Phillips Collection to give birth to a new artistic experience inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s epic masterpiece The Migration Series.

The dynamic new performance featuring two weeks of jazz, vocals, drums, dance, visual imagery community outreach activities and a special Saturday evening VIP performance and reception premieres at the Atlas Performing Arts Center June 15–26, 2011. It is an event not to be missed!!

Past attendees include Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Ambassador Princeton Lyman; former DC City Administrator Neil Albert, Grammy-award winning Sweet Honey in the Rock and other civic and cultural dignitaries.

Step Afrika!’s commitment to bringing high-energy performances and youth programs to our region has earned the organization some of Washington, DC’s highest honors, including the Mayor’s Arts Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education” and “Innovation in the Arts”. Step Afrika! is also Washington, DC’s first and only ”Cultural Ambassador”.