Ryan Bailey
“Mississippi, God damn!”. She was sitting at the piano, filled with rage about mistreatments of black people in the described “free world”. Alabama, Tennessee, fire hoses, biting dogs, raging white supremacists. Nina Simone, jazz aficionado, stalwart, could not take it anymore, “me and my people are bout due” she wrote, and sang. She wanted to be boundless, FREE!!! (That was 1964).
Sarah Ewing
Choreographer Shaness D. Kemp, (UMBC staff) was sitting at home in the Caribbean, watching the body count of black lives murdered by the hands of the Police: Travon Martin, George Floyd, to name a few. The spirit of these dead ones, she wanted to be unforgotten. But how? She created a team of dancers, musicians, lighting directors and poets; thus, was born, SPIRIT of OUR LIVES.
Dancer from BOUNDLESS
This is BLACK HISTORY MONTH (February 2023); she and the Baltimore Dance Project wanted to show the ancestors, Nina Simone and company, that the chains had come off, and African Americans are on their way to being, BOUNDLESS!
Dancer from BOUNDLESS
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