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Call and Response Collective

@call_loveresponse

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Communal performance art events and programming
Founder @ash444stevens

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Every single new relationship has opened my heart so wide this year.
I am immensely grateful for you all.
So in love with Chicago Summer.
To more hard-work and prosperity.

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I have grown so much this year. Being blessed to travel so many places and meet so many inspirational voices. A year full of new challenges and rewards. Rewards earned from all of the affirmations, prayer, and hard work my family and I have sowed. To everyone who has poured into my heart this year, thank you. I wouldn’t be the person I am without my community. Can’t wait to continue to shift and celebrate life for as long as I breathe!!!❤️❤️❤️

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didn’t take many pictures last week, but i performed in Dance For Life Chicago for the very first time! who better to share it with than @southchicagodancetheatre 💚

immense gratitude for the kindest people at south, the passion of the chicago dance community, and of course the trust of @fchoreochaves for gifting us your work to perform.

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Summer Time
Summer Time
Summer Time

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Springboard 2025

I am leaving Springboard full of inspiration and gratitude. Feeling so blessed to have been able to witness and partake in so much beautiful dancing for three weeks. I learned so much new information that will stick with me for the rest of my career and I am deeply grateful.

Thank you, thank you, thank you @zanderander & @kyle_abraham_original_recipe for allowing me to live in you worlds for a period of time. Your process taught me so much and pushed me in ways helped me grow so much. I am leaving extremely inspired and eager to enter this next phase of my dancing journey! Thank you so much🫶🏾

Thank you @alexandrawells.dance for accepting me into the amazing program, i am changed forever. Thank you @thedancingpotter @littlepieceofjoi @andrea_sofia2010 @jannahrosa_ for running this program so amazingly and getting to know all 120 of us🫶🏾

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The Next Chapter

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Behind you, all your memories, Before you, all your dreams Around you, all that loves you, Within you, all you need. Sky is the limit #graduationseason #uscgrad

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So many pure moments of joy and so much sorrow. Now I stand abundantly amongst roses.

💕Thank you @nathanywu for the pics. 🥰

#blackqueergrad
#uscgrad
#danceislife
#lovemeorleaveme

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Class of 2025 Spotlight @Call_loveresponse

Malachi Ashley Stevens is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, choreography, poetry, and activism. They began dancing in church as a spiritual practice, later training at Divine Dance Institute and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Now pursuing a BFA at USC Kaufman and a minor in Entertainment, Media, and Society at Annenberg, Stevens approaches art through a critical lens on power and privilege.

They’ve performed works by Kyle Abraham, Hope Boykin, Peter Chu, Micaela Taylor, Justin Peck, and Jiří Kylián, and are a recipient of an artistic excellence scholarship. A Capoeira practitioner, Stevens draws on rhythm and musicality to inform their movement.

Their practice merges performance and education, using art to provoke dialogue, inspire thought, and advocate for social change.

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#USCKaufman #USC #DanceOn #KaufmanGraduate

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The Last Tree (5/4/25)

Thank you God for giving me the space to uplift love and denounce harm in public with such exquisite human beings!!!!

Still struggling to process this past Sunday. No words can describe the honor of giving back to the arts and the LA community. All the love and grief touched our ears during the soft chirps of swallows flying above us.

My heart is more healed now because of all of the lovely people and talent that heard my call and responded with commitment, attention to detail, freedom, awareness, and grace. This being my first directorial debut I was taken aback with people that were on top of their game who knew my weakness and strengths allowing me to lead without being stressed!!!! Breathing is easier now after receiving the answers to my prayers.

The open mics were brilliant and so inspiring to bear witness. I have many videos I am going to ask the performers for permission to post. What an honor to hear the audiences creative nourishments!!!

I desperately want to live in this artivist work forever.

Thank you to my gorgeous cast and beautiful hosts @melissazlai and @hashtagbbr both of your hearts led the space so well and seamlessly.

Thank you to @bhsostatepark for allowing us to breathe life into this gorgeous space.

Thank you to @kwiiiiiilks for building the tree with me 💕

Thank you @usckaufman for guiding me and my peers into being rounded artist with profound knowledge on dance.

Thank you @matthewteutimez for allowing me to interview you!!! The knowledge you and your ancestors hold deserves to be heard by the whole world!!! I am immensely grateful!!!

Thank you to my parents and especially my Aunty for guiding my heart and my mind. I surly could not have done this without your support!!!

Thank you to every single individual person who came and left a donation!!! We have raised a substantial amount and will continue to have donation based entries for future projects.

Call and Response Collective has more to do for the LA community and we cannot wait to carry the torch for more live arts in the city that gives back to the city!!!!

Only up from here baby!!! Walk with intentionality, determination, and love!!!

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this past Sunday I got to vocalize, improvise, and emcee-ize for a veryyy special project — Ash’s USC senior thesis show The Last Tree, presented at the beautiful Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook 🌻🌟 this was a dance-theater show and open mic about the themes of ecological collapse, capitalism, decolonizing relationships to our land, and the choices we face in order to preserve that which we have left—not just for ourselves, but for generations to come.

Ash had such a big huge vision and seeing it come together was kind of flabbergasting !!! the synthesis of dance and music and improvising within both, and sharing the energy of the performance with the audience and Mother Nature… wow !!! the different musical elements underscoring the talented af dancers in their solo, duet, and group pieces !! so happy to have played a part 💛

📷 1-3: @tomikoyounge

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I had the privilege of performing an excerpt of my poem “Forevermore” written 2/28/25, at the Cal State Universities Cultural Collide open mic. Got to listen and hear beautiful stories from Altadena residents. Can’t wait to visit Altadena someday and spend time giving back to more communities in California!!!

Be sure to grab a ticket for THE LAST TREE or just pull up to Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook 5/4/25 at 4:30-7:30pm. @call_loveresponse link in bio✨😘

Dance theater that explores environmental and social justice issues as well as provides space for an open mic for the audience and performers to blur and become one.

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