Peter London Global Dance Company (PLGDC) in collaboration with Metamorphosis Dance Company of Trinidad & Tobago presents a dynamic and electrifying dance explosion of contemporary dance rooted in the African Diaspora dance traditions and retention of West African dance ritual and music.

Springer, a Trinidadian dancer, and choreographer virtually created EMBERS from Port of Spain, Trinidad on the PLGDC dancers in Miami. EMBERS depicts the natural instinct of the human being to survive under harsh conditions and times of adversity. It’s about that inner glow we all possess as beings.

PLGDC Artistic Director, London created virtually FIRE & GOLD on the Metamorphosis Dance Company in Port of Spain. London's work celebrates the powerful, dramatic, and high-octane dances of the Caribbean, derived from the West African Yoruba, Igbo/Ibo, Congo, and Haiti. Elements of thunder and lightning of the venerated Orisha King/Oba Shango of the 15th century Oyo Empire of southwestern Nigeria, the water goddesses Orisha Oshun, Loa Ersilli, and Orisha Ogun, God of iron and war, cut through the dance like lightning, fired up by the heart-pounding music from the award-winning album Creole Soul by international award-winning jazz musician Etienne Charles.

This event is sponsored by the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs.

This is free virtual event.

Photographer: Gregory Reed