Black
History Month
Today in our lesson, Jess, Henry and I came to the decision
that we would do the performance for BHM together. Henry was originally going
to accompany us on piano or guitar and also perform a Bob Dylan classic for his
piece. In today’s lesson, we as a three mutually decided to work together on
one song. We thought this would be the best way of making our performance piece
be of a high quality rather than having two separate pieces.
Throughout the past couple of weeks, we have been indecisive
on what song we are going to perform for our final BHM piece. In this lesson,
we finally came to a mutual decision! We are going to sing ‘Ain’t no Mountain
High enough’ by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Below, is the clip of their
original song.
We chose this song because we believe it represents to urge
that it doesn’t matter how far away your friends and family were in times of
racial discrimination, that you will always be there for them no matter how far
away you are. We think that this idea can be portrayed through this song and
possibly some simple staging positions. The power of the words automatically attracts
the audience towards the meaning of the lyrics, emotionally forcing them into
paying attention to the happenings on stage. We figured from this, if we
arrange some simple movements for us to perform on stage, the audience will be encouraged
to feel for the victims in a powerful manor.
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