The Neon Black Festival is the first Black dance festival in Indianapolis. This one-of-a-kind event is hosted by Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective and made great by 10 local performing companies led by artists of color. Summer is ours as we come to you live from The Madam Walker Legacy Center. Neon Black will be joyful, powerful, excellent. This festival is made possible with support from The Indianapolis Foundation, A CICF Affiliate and Ice Miller LLP.

The Saturday festival performance is at 7pm at the Madam Walker Legacy Center and will feature performances by: Divergence Performing Arts
InDanza Dance Company
Seda Negra/Black Silk Dance Company
Relevations Dance Company
Kenyetta Dance Company
Epiphany Dance Collective

The Sunday festival performance is at 2pm at the Madam Walker Legacy Center and will feature performances by:
iibada Dance Company
Allure Dance & Fitness Studio
Create Freedom Arts Projects
Austin “Sirlimitless” Day
Kenyetta Dance Company
Epiphany Dance Collective

But we wouldn’t be Indy Movement Arts if we didn’t include a way for YOU to get in the mix. International dance-maker, Michelle Gibson will be teaching her The New Orleans Original Buckshop accompanied by a live brass band!! Everyone is welcome to attend this all-levels workshop (did I mention the workshop is accompanied by a live brass band?). Drawing on her upbringing in New Orleans, Gibson “…engages participants in the culture and Diasporic traditions of Black New Orleans as pertains to the rooted history of the city, through dance, language, art and music…Using her Second Line Aesthetic in dance workshops…she acquaints participants with Second Line as a rooted spiritual impulse for movement.” The workshop will take place on Saturday, June 8th from 12-2pm at the Madam Walker Legacy Center.