ABOUT OUR HEADLINER: DELINA BROOKS
Delina Patrice Brooks is a dancer, songwriter, poet and actress, proudly based in Oakland, CA. As a first time playwright, Brooks earned a 2008 Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award nomination for "Beauty, The Beast: A Dance-Theater Production," which she coins as a breathing self-portrait. Brooks has studied and performed across the U.S, Western Europe, and Guinea, West Africa, where she participated in several intensive dance workshop series' with Les Ballets AFricains. She has been funded by Zellerback Family Foundation, City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program and East Bay Community Foundation.
Most recently she was presented by Yerba Buena for the Arts, Youth Speaks, The Black Choreographers Festival, and La Pena Cultural Center, and performed with The Living Word Project's touring project "SCOURGE," Deep Waters Dance Theater, ASE Dance Theater Collective (NYC), Faustin Linyekula, and Robert Henry Johnson, among others. Favorite roles include Hubert/Tribe Member in "HAIR" with Willows Theater (Concord, CA) and the title role in "CINDERELLA" with San Francisco's African American Shakespeare Company. Brooks has a Bachelor's' Degree in Kinesiology (SFSU) and a second Bachelor's in Ethnic Studies (CSU EB). Oh, and she's a Pisces. Visit her on Facebook
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