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If Cities Could Dance
A Praise Dance for Oakland
Season 1
Episode 8
Dancer and choreographer Peterson blends an array of contemporary and traditional influences, including house, African, and liturgical dance, as he leaps, twirls and pirouettes in front of an Oakland Superheroes Mural, outside the historic Fox Theater, and by the Remember Them: Champions for Humanity Monument.
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