The Dance Theater or Harlem is absolutely incredible.
... the mix of fluidity, precision, and soul energy is 🔥
Jump to the 7:38 mark in this vid, to go straight to the dancing
(I'm told this video is viewable for only a week - thanks @alphamom ... )
... the mix of fluidity, precision, and soul energy is 🔥
Jump to the 7:38 mark in this vid, to go straight to the dancing
(I'm told this video is viewable for only a week - thanks @alphamom ... )
at 12:59.
This is so inspiring.
it's like watching the universe itself unfold
music is from the soundtrack to Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk"
haunting, so much it practically aches with beauty
my favorite thing I've seen in a while
This is so inspiring.
it's like watching the universe itself unfold
music is from the soundtrack to Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk"
haunting, so much it practically aches with beauty
my favorite thing I've seen in a while
(such an artful decision to cut to this clip right after the clip about inspiring kids to believe in themselves as dancers)
well played, video editor, well played.
well played, video editor, well played.
17:53 "It takes a lot, but the results show - in all of us"
Inspiring
Nice use of the Brooklyn Bridge - precision and power, metaphors of travel and return.
Feel the mood shift at 19:00
Feels very New York and Baroque at the same time.
Inspiring
Nice use of the Brooklyn Bridge - precision and power, metaphors of travel and return.
Feel the mood shift at 19:00
Feels very New York and Baroque at the same time.
27:30 ish - LOVE the cuts from studio to street and back again
28:45 ... it took until 1971 to match tights and shoes to skin color!!!
WHOA how did it take so long.
Clearly a significant moment.
WHOA how did it take so long.
Clearly a significant moment.
Cannot ever forget how much of dance, and ballet in general, is about body sovereignty. For ALL bodies. For anybody who wants to dance.
Makes me think of "Whitman's "I Celebrate myself".
Properly understood, it means the body, as a holy place.
Makes me think of "Whitman's "I Celebrate myself".
Properly understood, it means the body, as a holy place.
https://twitter.com/Jeanvaljean689/status/1315296220739321856
"Ballet Wakanda" - perfect.
"Back in slavery times, when the nation and its laws said we had no right to family - to the kinship structures of blood and law - we made another set of relations.
Finding. Family.
... we bind where rules fail; and laws miss."
- Imani Gandi
Finding. Family.
... we bind where rules fail; and laws miss."
- Imani Gandi
36:50 "This is how we move forward. Letting the constraints of the moment die a little bit. To breathe life in the moment into the process of becoming."
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