Dance Space for People of the Global Majority  October 27th, 2025

Conversation Overview 

Embracing Collective Liberation through Dance

Freedom Dance Collective reminds us that liberation begins in the body and ripples outward.

Join us for a community conversation with Sapana Doshi, founder and core teacher of Freedom Dance Collective, centering BIPOC (people of the global majority) spaces for dance, embodiment, and movement—and how these containers nourish presence, joy, connection, and collective liberation.

Sapana Doshi - Sapana Doshi (she/they, PhD) is a teacher-healer who embodies and bridges wildly diverse worlds and languages— from academia to embodiment, meditation to dance, activism to eros—in the service of liberation and joy. As a facilitator of The 360 Emergence, she holds movement spaces centering People of the Global Majority (Black, Indigenous and People of Color). Sapana’s offering, Merge and Emerge, draws on the well of The 360 alongside other embodiment, ancestral, intellectual and activist wisdoms to heal and unlearn global capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy in our personal and collective bodies. They founded Freedom Dance Collective, a collaborative of teachers holding twice monthly BIPOC dances in Oakland, California. Sapana also integrates embodiment into her research and teaching as a professor at the University of California where she designs curriculums that integrate social justice analysis with mind-body practice as alternative to alienating and oppressive paradigms of higher education. Last but not least, Sapana is a witchy queer who is dreaming and conjuring a body of work for on erotics, power and liberation.

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