Duniya Dance Company, Arenas Dance Company, and Dance Mission Theater’s Liberation Academy present the world premiere of Raíces et Résistance (or Roots and Resistance in Spanish/French), co-directed by Cuban choreographer Susana Arenas Pedroso and Guinean musician Bongo Sidibe. Raíces et Résistance explores the vibrant, layered, and largely unknown social-political relationship between Guinea, West Africa and Cuba, forged by the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the post-colonial cultural exchange that began in the 1960s. Bringing together their cultural expertises, their passion, their senses of joy and justice, Pedroso and Sidibe have created a unique performance built on storytelling and cultural collaboration.  Raíces et Résistance features a world-class Guinean/Cuban ensemble of 25 dancers and 15 musicians with traditional costuming from Cuba and Guinea in a performative conversation as Spanish and Malinké lyrics interweave with Cuban and Guinean rhythms.