Classic and Contemporary

For my Remix video I have selected two pieces of Theatrical text one of a contemporary nature performed by Tyrone Mills a 2012 NYU Masters Candidate. The piece represents the movement from passed African-American ideology to its newest state. The character portrayed in this piece is in the middle of a heated argument with his father over what it means not only to be a black man but a man in todays society.

The Theatre has forever been a means of social commentary and social liberation, in my Classical Selection we see William Shakespeare's Othello, the title character a black moor after the world of the play has tackled him and placed him in a no win situation wrought with jealousy we find Othello after he has murdered his Love, Desdemona. Othello is perplexed by the hoodwinking of his so called friend Iago. 

These two pieces represent for me the huge continuum in language and in subject matter. The Music being played under the pieces is that of Ennio Morricone a fantastic musical composer, it was actually the first piece of emotional text put into the project, becoming the foundation and the inspiration for the two performances. I hope you enjoy them.

Montagnard Dega Interest

Whoa,
           Meeting with the Montagnards via Skype was great. I have the most interest in what their theatre community is like. I am aware that we never really touched on it, though we did discuss their music and cultural arts to some extent. I am interested to see what there theatrical practices are and how they are similar or different from our western classical approaches to the theater. I have some ideas but I am sure I'm probably off on a few things.

These web pages will help out. They discuss the Hip-Hop Culture in the Dega movement. Hip-hop is form of dance that can in many ways tell a story, the other web page is web page discussing the history of the Montagnard people, history is where most all art comes from, this will serve as a possible spring board into the life content of a potential Theater piece.
 http://www.cal.org/co/montagnards/vpeop.html
 http://diacritics.org/2011/01/05/mondegas-for-the-people-a-montagnard-hip-hop-debut/

 
An actor or orator in the Montagnard community could help me out in this. It would be exciting to do a silent clown piece with him or her, there is no language and the physical acting is purely technique and and organic impulses.

Ghana and I

Origins

Born In Lompoc, California

                       Raised in Dallas, Texas