The Creative Team

RICHARD KARZ

Executive Producer

Richard Karz is the producer of the PBS documentary special, Legacy: Being Black in America, which explores the rise of Barack Obama against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement. Legacy features Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Young, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Marian Wright Edelman, Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Manning Marable, and John Hope Franklin.

TONI THOMAS

Dance Producer

Toni Thomas is Co-Producer of the Miami Dance Festival, Dance Presenter of the City of Los Angeles' African-American Heritage Month, and Dance Producer of the 21st Annual 2011 Beverly Hills/Hollywood Branch NAACP Theatre Awards and Festival Weekend.

JEFFREY PAGE

Associate Dance Producer

Creative Director

Winner of MTV's 2011 VMA's "Best Choreography" for Beyonce's "Run the World (Girls)," Jeffrey Page has been nominated for an Emmy Award (for choreography on the NAACP Image Awards), served as resident choreographer on Fox's hit reality TV show, So You Think You Dance, and has been an instructor/ consultant for Cirque du Soleil and Alvin Ailey.

DANCE THE DREAM

On August 28, 2013, a series of flash mob dances will take place in public squares of cities, towns, and small villages around the world. Each event is to be spearheaded by a local choreographer working in collaboration with our Creative Director, Jeffrey Page.

Each locality will perform two dances: one to a music selection used by all of the choreographers and another to music that is exclusive for the venue, reflecting its distinctive culture and civil rights legacy.

The dance events are to be streamed on YouTube as well as broadcast on digital billboards in select public squares on the anniversary. A compilation video featuring highlights of the dances will be released on YouTube, with a feature documentary to follow.

DANCE THE DREAM is about creating a shared life-affirming experience that galvanizes global solidarity for overcoming division and solving problems. It is about people from every corner of the planet all coming together in Dr. King's "symphony of brotherhood," and it is about inaugurating a new era of progress and possibility.

Contact: info@karzproductions.com