TeMaTe Institute for Black Dance and Culture

TeMaTe Institute for Black Dance and Culture (TeMaTe Institute) is a niche institution in Detroit’s arts and culture community. We are a dance justice and culture equity organization, that sits at the intersection of performance and organizing.

Since our inception in 2019, we have been guided by our vision, values, principles, and practices to ignite a critical mass of partners and cultural stewards that preserve, progress, and pass afro-rooted traditions. We have remained steadfast in that vision. Through our convenings and other programming, we have created a place to actively interrogate what it means to accept or reject cultural art validation.