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.
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