By Way of The Funk(2024)
From the 2023 Moving… Beyond Forward
To the 2024 Winter Program-
Our Voices, Our Choices
Return to the Perelman Theater, December 2024 for Philadanco!, “Our Voices, Our Choices…This Is Us!” in many ways prepared the audience to discuss the work of choreography that channels a civil movement and educates audiences on Black American heritage. The language of dance digests the theme of museums in that collections now speak to wider audiences, diversity of artists shown, and whose audience belongs. Ethnographic research into titles like “An Acceptance for Necessary Endings,” unfolds a means of a cultural personality in music used, to completely transfer an emotional arch. In the way I have never seen before, “A Movement For Five,” took a look from the Black American history that scar of inequality for black and brown people in terms of social justice, and injustice so clearly took shape. And the study of movement, looking at the liberty of these channels through PHILADANCO! for influence as well as, “By Way of The Funk.”
“An Acceptance of Necessary Endings,” by Martha Nichols
The music of Laura Mvula was influential in the sound, and background which brought in other media, such as the influence of a music video. While, in my immediate reaction to the performance I was transported by a stylistic choice in costuming, beautifully well-lit, to communicate a Bollywood interlude of dance and singing, and pure joy.
WHYSEEART
EGOPO CLASSIC THEATER
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’neill
Co-produced by EgoPo Classic Theater and Abraham-Meyer Theater Co., 2017
BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL, TONGO SAA, 2024.
An Investigative Essay
✓ Jazz Music in North America
✓ Musical Theater An American History
✓ Atlas of the History of Africa
DogStar Theater, MUNGO PARK: TRAVELS TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, 2016
A Human Being Died That Night, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela interview with Eugene de Kock, “Prime Evil’. The play situated South African commander state-sanctioned death squad during the Apartheid.
PHILADANCO!
My Science
by Bebe Miller
“My Science,” by Bebe Miller from 2001 was as intentional as it was methodical in how the punk, brutally feminist punch introduced with music of La Voix and Led Zeppelin played in to this mood. Particularly, the intro of three ladies, and face to face with the male dancers, render with the switch of gender in heterogeneous politics. Both appear too, in the duets which strongly pointed toward this attitude from the way these ladies took up space, like a thriller scene of a bond between friends taking to the streets in spirits rarely captured in this genuine chase for the thrill. in life. An intrinsic matter of fact, I found myself unraveling this review of this choreography, in perspective to a relationship with writing, taking up space in my own mind, and reality set apart from the delusion these ladies instructed a fun loving space for creating.
A Movement For Five
Choreography by Dawn Marie Bazemore
“Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. Matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight.“
Thomas TNT Todd
This intro from the lyrics by Public Enemy, FIGHT THE POWER was upbeat for the breakdown in the beginning. The hype was real, and led the energy into a dramatic change in mood, from lightness to darkness. In a transition from section II-III, a powerful solo by Floyd McLean Jr. with Andrew Bryant, William E. Burden, Nathan McNatt Jr., and Israel Hilton.
BY Way Of The Funk
Choreography by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
The final take on ethnographically, rooted in historical African American traditions, was in how gender becomes something fluid in By Way Of The Funk.
The dance was in the spirit of clubbing, to let go, really out of pocket. Effortless with dancers from the shadows to center stage, putting on sunglasses, thrusting, and lounging. It was sensational, in a group, the rave-party on stage had individuality in perfect harmony.
