JoyUs JustUs
joyUS Momentum. April 26 - April 29 is the title of the Annual SpringDances at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. I will be performing in the show in an excerpt of the work JoyUs JustUs. I was blessed to be chosen for this work by Contra Tiempo founder Ana Maria Alvarez. Contra Tiempo performers Isis Avalos and Bianca Medina came in for a four day intensive with the students and set the work in that time.
The work “joyUS justUS” takes on joy as the ultimate expression of resistance. Whenever humans have survived immense hardship and injustice, prevailing with their humanity intact, the presence of joyor, the knowingness and celebration of our true beauty and powerhas always been at the root. “joyUS justUS” reclaims the dominant deficit based narrative of people of color in this country as being underprivileged, voiceless, powerless, and victimized, and flips it on its head by embodying stories of joy collected from communities of color.
