WHAT: SCDT's Artist Talk:Women in Hip Hop withShakia The Key in conversation with Tatiana Desardouin/Passion Fruit Dance WHEN: Saturday September 24 at 7:30 PM WHERE: A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater, 33 Hawley Street TICKETS HERE Passion Fruit Dance Company is a Street, Club dance and educational company founded in 2016, composed of Tatiana Desardouin (Haitian & Swiss, founder, artistic director, choreographer), Lauriane Ogay (Swiss) and Mai Lê Hô (French-Vietnamese). Its mission is to promote the authenticity of street dance and clubbing styles, Hip Hop and house cultures and their black heritage, as well as its contribution to society, by exploring different social problems through their dance pieces and artistic practices. They performed the piece "Dance Within Your Dance" in places such as at The Apollo Theater, Summerstage, Harlem Stage, Jacob's pillow, the New Victory Theater, BAAD!, LOHH, Joe's Pub, 92Y, Musikfest and abroad (in Canada at the M.A.I (MTL) and in Switzerland at the "Outside" festival (Neuchatel). They performed the piece "Trapped" at the Bridge Street Theater, Lincoln Center, and the Guggenheim. Passion Fruit Dance Company was recently featured in The New Yorker magazine (April 2021). Tatiana Desardouin was selected as one of Dance Magazine's 2020 "25 to Watch.", features in Harper's Bazaar (2021) and is one of the winners of the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Dance (2022).