Draft Project Post

 I want to create a performance art piece using dance through my performance.

Dance as resistance is something many people have used to feel a sense of freedom.

I want to create a demonstration of dances through a timeline, providing the oppression the population faced at the time, and end with our current times to uplift dances in latino communities.

I would like to invite the audience to join in dance as well.

I am between adding an audio with the history and music to follow along with, or have music mashedup with printed text of each dance and history around the performance area.

-Native American Ghost dance Illegal for 50 years 

African american social dances

-Juba dance on the plantations 

Slapping thighs shuffling feet and patting hands 

Slave owners ban on drumming and keeping cultural traditions alive and retaining a sense of freedom

-Twist

-Bomba dance in puerto rico 

-tango

-Vogue black and latinx queer community

-Dabke Palestinian folk dance

-traditional Mexican dance not allowed at Delaney Hall

-Reaggeaton Perreo against censorship, and conservative social values

(Bad Bunny)

Dancing preserves culture, expresses defiance and fosters community healing in the face of oppression.

Inspiration from Shaun Leonardo and Diana Ocholla