Friday, February 15, 2008

Black History- 1968 Riots

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On 14th Street in DC riots took place after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This happened 6 months after I was born and now 40 years later the place where the riots began in DC now has people supporting a Black candidate for President of the United States. 14th Street has recovered from the riots and new buildings now line its streets. The area has been revived but it is a lot less black. David Morneau composed a score to my video using the voice of MLK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Washington,_D.C._riots

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Pre-Futurist Dance Manifesto

The world of the past is no more and the world of the future will never arrive. There is only now and how you decide to respond in the now.

Postmodernism has past.

We believe in the intelligence of the body, the intelligence of the mind and that the two are impossible to separate.

Dance is the result of the physicalized mind and the verbose body and we reject putting the cart of scholarship and language before the horse of dance.

Performance happens now, it does not have to secure funding, book a theater or advertise in newspapers. It does not need rehearsal space. It does not need a concept. It does not need to last for more than a second. It does not need to be ephemeral. It does not need flowy pants, tight tops or bare feet. It does not need previews, reviews or even to be seen at all.

We reject the term modern dance, we make art through movement. We dance, we make videos, we make paintings, we make video games, we write, we sculpt, we draw, we act, we sound and we move. We make art. We are artists.

We can change the world.