"This is a company that makes you sit up and take notice for all the
right reasons"
(Deirdre Kelly Globe & Mail)
MANDATE COBA, Collective of Black Artists isdedicated to
creating and presenting the finest traditions in dance and music that celebrate
and reflect an Africanist aesthetic.
MISSION Our mission is
to preserve the cultural traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora through
education, research and public performance. The Collective
presents Traditional West African dance, music and folklore; Caribbean
Indigenous Folk dance, music and rituals in their purest forms possible for a
theatrical stage. While also creating contemporary works developed from an
Africanist movement aesthetic that reflects social and global African
realities...more
News
COBA welcomes its new General Manager
Matt Sweet...
COBA visits Jamaica and Trinidad
and Tobago for ethnographic research for its repertoire.
AUDITIONS: August
26
2008 Professional Training Apprenticeship Program
11:00 AM @ COBA Studios
