What kind of dancer are you?

Today, I started the planing for this week class at the Albemarle Recreation.  Each week, I do a newsletter, "Got dance news?" to set the tone of the class and communicate through writing to the parents.  In this week newsletter, I ask the dancers: what kind of dancer are you?  Being in this dance world, I know that you must know what kind of dancer you are.  I am not talking about the style.  I am talking about what makes them as a dancer move.  As for me, dance is a way that I tell my testimony.  It is what drives me to write a weekly newsletter, blog, facebook, create dance works, and just become free in dance. 

My students are young dancers.  Once they know the kind of dancer they are no one could tell them whom they are. Aha! I know you deeper thinkers know where I am going with this.  I teach through experience. 

Tomorrow is a big day, the students are having their first audition.  I have two professional dancers setting works on them. Depending on how they do, I will be selecting a trio and soloist for the MufukaWorks "Invisible" Afro Russe Production out the students.  This will give them a glimpse of the dance world. 

Speaking of the production, it is going well.  I final got the final cd for the music.  I have changed the music a couple times but finally I got the music.  Tomorrow, it will be a long day.

To my readers, What kind of dancer are you?

Invisible

On November 16th, I will be choreographing a piece called "Invisible".  I was inspired by a student whom shared her story with me on feeling alone in this world to invisibility.  This student stated dance saved her life.  I knew this story very well because dance did the same for me. So, the student chose the song and I choreographed it.  This solo was such a hit that I decided to expand it into a MufukaWorks Afro Russe Dance Production.

With my new fall session of classes started in September, I thought that this will be the perfect time for their first performance.  Might as well, I started them into a deeper way of thinking.  The students are 8-12 years old and I have a few dancers from my professional adult performance company performing.  The production is really about the students. These students have grown so much that it amazes me as dancers and young people. 

So, I take their stories too and build on the choreography.  It starts addressing the problem straight on.  This problem is young people these days feeling invisible.  It goes on telling their struggles about insecurities, relationships, and more.  At the end, it has a message.  That message is invisible will visible. 

Come support us! Friday November 16 at 7pm. Only at Albemarle Recreation Center 5027 North Idlewild Rd Charlotte, NC 28212