The award-winning JazzAntiqua Dance & Music Ensemble returns to the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center with Ritual of Rhythm, a pulsating evening of dance celebrating jazz music as the rhythm of life, and JazzAntiqua’s 30th anniversary as jazz ambassadors.

Featuring choreography by artistic director Pat Taylor, company members and special guests, Ritual of Rhythm embraces the freedom, self-determination, community and joy at the heart of this life affirming expression we call JAZZ! Presented in association with Ebony Repertory Theatre and Dance@TheHolden.

Los Angeles-based JazzAntiqua Dance & Music Ensemble celebrates the jazz tradition as a vital thread in the cultural fabric of African American history and heritage, and a defining element of the American experience. Dedicated to jazz arts education, preservation and creation, JazzAntiqua embraces “the movement in the music” — the physical embodiment of the jazz aesthetic and the lineage, language and continuum embedded therein