PERFORMANCE
Repertoire | Music of the Actualized Child
With a large cast of interdisciplinary performers, Music of the Actualized Child blends autobiographical trauma narratives told by the dancers themselves as a multi-racial cast with the voices of formidable racial equity change-makers and trauma specialists, to discover what adverse childhood experiences reveal about our collective culture.
This work was funded by MAP Fund, commissioned by ODC Theater, and toured to Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show (Ashland, OR).
“Music of the Actualized Child draws upon a documentary film by Oakland-based educator and visionary Shakti Butler. The film, ‘Healing Justice,’ explores the phenomenon of the ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ whereby mostly children of color are systematically funneled into juvenile incarceration and eventually into prison. Music of the Actualized Child uses the film as a springboard for physical and musical invention, catalyzing an original work of documentary hip hop theater in the process.”
Featuring:
•Tigre Bailando
• Dre ‘Poko Soul’ Devis
• Sammay Dizon
• Amber Julian
• Terrence Paschal
• Johnny “Rawkit” Nguyen
• Keisha Turner
• George Wukong
• Chris Young-Ginzburg
aka Fluidgirl