This video is of a solo dance performed and choreographed by MissMaya hope it speaks for itself and feedback is welcome
Enjoy
**The spoken word is quiet, the words are written below:
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the hope and dream of the slave.
I rise, I rise, I rise.
But what rises, never to fall again?
Honestly?
I don't feel like I've ever stopped falling...
WOW beautiful Maya!! When the music came in and all that lower level movement on the floor. And then that 'transition' ooo at first contemporary fluid movements - gradually becoming more abrupt and aggressive ( ;-) Easy with the "crumping" :P) And then the prop/costume, and the use of lighting really enhanced what was already pretty amazing!! A lot of emotion, a powerful narrative that any audience can relate to and interpret for themselves. Wish I saw it live, might've shed a tear tho
JustJella 9 months ago