Sana, Sana Premiere at Dance Place

My name is Amber Lucia Chabus and I'm so excited to present my new trio, Sana, Sana, at Dance Place on March 29th.

Sana, Sana traces matrilineal lineages to find magic, identity and healing. In this new work, three performers are accompanied by a mirage of frogs in retrieving childhood comforts, spells, and remedies to heal forward. Collaborators Sydney Lemelin and Jadyn Brick and I explore a tribute to ourselves through movement, spoken word, puzzle making, crocheting, pointing, pushing, and raving. An intimate and immersive evening of reflection, audiences are reminded that, like the popular children's saying “Sana, Sana, Colita de Rana”, if you won’t heal today, you will heal tomorrow.

This will be my first time presenting an evening length work, and I simply cannot do it without you! As a Dance Place Co-Presentation Artist, I receive only a percentage of the ticket sales from the performance. I am seeking your support to help underwrite additional artist and designer fees, travel stipends, and rehearsal space costs. Your support will also support the longevity and artistic exploration of this work beyond its premiere at Dance Place.

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Learn about the performers!

Amber Lucia Chabus

Amber Lucia Chabus is a DC-based artist who finds joy moving her body in spaces with other creatives. Amber graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2018 with degrees in Dance and Kinesiology. She has performed professionally with Heart Stück Bernie, ReVision dance company, darlingdance, Light Switch Dance Theater, Xing Dance Theatre, Orange Grove Dance, and DanceTheYard. Amber was part of the inaugural Dance Metro DC Performance-in-Progress cohort and has had choreography shown at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Atlas Performing Arts Center, and Dance Place (Washington, DC) and at Island Grown Dance and the Built on Stilts Festival (Martha’s Vineyard). Amber is thrilled to make her evening-length choreographic debut at Dance Place with Sana, Sana. When not dancing or working in Communications at Sidwell Friends School, Amber keeps her personal brand consistent with cats (shout out Donut) and the color pink.

Jadyn Brick

Jadyn Brick is a queer, mixed race, Asian American dancer/maker from Silver Spring, MD. They studied dance at Dickinson College where they discovered their love for contact improvisation, somatic work, and interdisciplinary creating. Jadyn is grateful to have performed in works by Erin Crawley-Woods, Nichole Canuso, Orange Grove Dance, Christopher Williams, Jungeun Kim, and Sarah Beth Oppenheim. As a creator, Jadyn is interested in storytelling, big emotions, grief, and tenderness. They are currently dedicated to a practice of feeling emotions and resisting numbing. They aim to engage this practice in their artistic work as in life! Jadyn is also training to be a massage therapist. They are so grateful that they get to work with the felt experiences held in bodies in both their artistic work and massage work.

Sydney Lemelin

Sydney Lemelin was born in California under a libra moon. She holds a BA in Dance and BS in Information Science from the University of Maryland, College Park (Go terps). She spent a post-bacc year in rural Vermont ripping up floors and creating spreadsheets for The Field Center, an interdisciplinary performing arts center. Then, purely for dramatic affect, Sydney relocated to southern Florida. She now brings boutique contemporary performance to the idyllic sea-side village of Sarasota as The Ringling’s Performance Producer. She’s excited to be back in D.C. (but don’t call it a comeback) to perform for her longtime conspirator, collaborator, and nemesis Amber Lucia Chabus. She has enjoyed dancing with Moving Ethos, BANDportier, Heart Stück Bernie, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, Britta J. Peterson, Jo Lloyd (Melbourne, AUS) and Orange Grove Dance. She has presented work with Project Alchemy’s Choreographer Showcase, Sarasota Contemporary Dance’s Rising Choreographers Showcase, Dance Place, Baltimore Theater Project, The Clarice Center for Performing Arts, and more.