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Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence Tickets

The life of a legend, told through dance.

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Production photo of The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence in Washington with one performer leaping mid-air with a staff, while others are playing instruments.

About Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence

By Step Afrika!

"A show that needs to be experienced: a blend of incredible movement, rhythms and singing."
— DC Theater Scene

Using its hallmark style of percussive dance-theater, Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence tells the story of one of the largest movements of people in United States history, when millions of African American migrants moved from the rural South to the industrial North in the 1900s to escape Jim Crow, racial oppression, and lynchings. Inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s iconic 60-panel “The Migration Series” (1940-41), this signature work from the award-winning dance company uses the images, color palette, and motifs in the painting series to tell this astonishing story through pulsating rhythms and visually stunning movement.