Black history month performance

 

The video I chose was a dance performance I did for black history month, this dance was an upbeat , fast, majorette type of dancing originated from Africa, adopted by the Americans. As I danced , the background had a PowerPoint of all the important African American figures during slavery, discrimination and oppression.  The song I danced to was Beyoncé “My House” the reason I picked that song is because she says a message in the song that I felt everyone should’ve heard, especially for the event. The social problems I can say that’s relevant to my video would be gender norms, feminism in music industry, and acknowledging our past activists. Some quotes that I found interesting are below 

Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter behind the Myth of her Name

“From sumi-ink paintings on unstretched canvas, where one is burned, another placed on the ground and another drips with water, to different artworks that could exist as mere instructions, to be executed once, multiple times, or even never.

I agree with this because I feel that way when creating a dance, I focus on making it perfect so that it only has to be executed once, and everyone is fixated on the videos because they don’t know when they’ll see me dance again.

Performing arts : the introduction 

“Historically, performance art has been a medium that challenges and violates borders between disciplines and genders, between private and public, and between everyday life and art, and that follows no rules.

Like I said above, dance challenges social norms daily, no matter how it’s excited, dance is a form of art that can be interpreted in so many different ways

“such approaches engage the viewer and encourage their active participation in artistic production; however, they also speak to a cultural shift toward interactive modes of communication and social exchange that characterize the 21st century”

I could’ve did a regular dance for the show but I wanted my dancing and the music to come from somewhere culturally. How African dances and the people doing it evolved, I wanted to engage the audience with an upbeat dance and tone