A Long Way Gone
This morning I hosted a presentation by Gansango Music and Dance at Garfield High School. It was amazing! The dancers were energetic, vibrant, and able to draw out the students. Many students got up on stage and danced with them. The music was both melodic and rhythmic; I don't think my feet stopped moving once during the performance.
If you get a chance, go to their LaCalabasse performance at the Seattle Art Museum. They will be there Friday 10/5 at 7pm and Saturday 10/6 at 2pm. Tickets are $12 at the Sam box office.
Prior to the dance performance, Josh Fields got up and talked about the correlation between hip hop and everyday life. He tied this in with the 2011 Reads book that Garfield's 9th grade is focusing on this year: A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. He was a great warm up for the dance performance and really caught the students attention by representing popular artists such as 2 Pac and Grand Master Flash, playing snippets of music and showing clips of Ishmael Beah speaking. It really brought the subject of Sierra Leone's rebel war home for me, which I hadn't give much thought to before.
If you get a chance, go to their LaCalabasse performance at the Seattle Art Museum. They will be there Friday 10/5 at 7pm and Saturday 10/6 at 2pm. Tickets are $12 at the Sam box office.
Prior to the dance performance, Josh Fields got up and talked about the correlation between hip hop and everyday life. He tied this in with the 2011 Reads book that Garfield's 9th grade is focusing on this year: A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. He was a great warm up for the dance performance and really caught the students attention by representing popular artists such as 2 Pac and Grand Master Flash, playing snippets of music and showing clips of Ishmael Beah speaking. It really brought the subject of Sierra Leone's rebel war home for me, which I hadn't give much thought to before.
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