A New Project
We're about to head into our final project of the year. I'm so proud of all of you dancers and how far you have come since the beginng of the year. I also would like to encourage each and every one of you to put everything you have into this last project and together we'll make it the best one yet!
First, I wanted to share with you the link to the video that inspired the project. These three poets are an inspiration to us all. The perspective they have on the world at such a young age is mind blowing. Perhaps from inspiring videos like the one here and the ones that we are creating in The Contemporary Movement we can continue to inspire a change and propell our society forward in a positive light.
For those of you who missed class this last week, we began by discussing the first three verses of the poem. I would encourage you to also look at each verse and think about these things:
1) Who is the speaker?
2) What is the basic situation?
3) Are there any conflicts?
4) What kind of imagery do you see?
For your convenience here are the first three verses:
"Somewhere In America"
by Belissa Escobedo, Zariya Allen and Rhiannon McGavin
Here in America and every single state they have a set of standards for every subject, a collection of lessons that the teacher’s required to teach by the end of the term. But the greatest lessons you will ever teach us will not come from your syllabus. The greatest lesssons you will ever teach us you will not even remember.
You never told us what we weren’t allowed to say. We just learned how to hold our tongues.
Now somewhere in America there is a child holding a copy of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and there is a child holding a gun.
But only one of these things have been banned by their state government and, it’s not the one that can rip through flesh, it’s the one that says “‘F’ You” on more pages than one.
