Jim Henson Academy of Visual and Performing Arts

Dance Department

at 

NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL

Presents...

June 5, 2024
6:30 PM
Justice Auditorium
Northwestern High School
7000 Adelphi Rd.
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Bayardo Martinez, Dance Department Director

... Program ...

Troublin' Mind

• • Choreographer: Sharae Freeman

  • Performer(s): Sharae Freeman

  • Music by: EJ Jones (cover) and Sam Cooke (original song) 

  • Research Topic: Mental Health

  • Choreographer's Notes: A piece that seeks to embody the disturbances within the mind of individuals when hardships and challenges arise. Through large and erratic movements used to encapsulate the downsides of mental health, along with one’s thoughts and feelings when dealing with troubling situations. Although, this piece highlights the hardships, it is also to bring awareness to the issue of society not prioritizing mental health, which is every humans right and a crucial state of wellbeing. So think to yourself, what is troubling my mind today? and what healthy and positive things can I look forward to in order to get me through them?

The During And The After

• • Choreographer: Brianna Moscoso

  • Performer(s): Brianna Moscoso

  • Music by: Celeste and Nicholas Britell

  • Research Topic: Human Trafficking

  • Choreographer's Notes: A rigid, controlled pattern, symbolizing entrapment and loss of freedom, with dim lighting casting long shadows to emphasize the confinement that you call life. The mental toll you continue to face when you come out of the only life that you've known. The better of what knew possibilities have been given in the now. 

Cyberchase

• • Choreographer: Louisetta Koh

  • Performer(s): Sharae Freeman, Kimora Goodwine, Roberta Hottab, Louisetta Koh, Hellen Paredes, Makyra Turner

  • Music by: Typing Audio Sound Effects

  • Spoken Text: Ressa Pinnock

  • Research Topic: Cyberbullying

  • Choreographer's Notes: This section is about an everyday thing that’s deals with the online threats not only this piece is about cyber bullying it’s coming from a different point of view.

988

• • Choreographer: Luisen Asanji

  • Performer(s): Luisen Asanji, Brianna Brewley, Christian Caldwell, Brooklyn Ramsay, Makayla Richardson

  • Music by: Labarinth 

  • Research Topic: Teen Suicide

  • Choreographer's Notes: Warning signs aren't always obvious, and they may vary from person to person. Some people make their intentions clear, while others keep suicidal thoughts and feelings secret. The lonelyness you feel because u feel like no one can truly understand what you are going through.

Medicated

• • Choreographer: Roberta Hottab

  • Performer(s): Roberta Hottab

  • Music by: Max Ritcher

  • Research Topic: Drug Abuse (Prescription Drugs)

  • Choreographer's Notes: Many Americans are struggling with drug abuse, with millions dying as a result many continue to wrestle with overcoming addiction.This piece depicts a person grappling with an addiction to prescription drugs, experiencing a pivotal realization, and seeking to overcome that addiction by receiving help.

Other

• • Choreographer: Hellen Paredes-Jeronimo

  • Performer(s): Hellen Paredes-Jeronimo

  • Music by: SPM Music Group LLC & Jordan Critz

  • Research Topic: Border Security

  • Choreographer's Notes: This story follows a mother who longs for her child. This can be interpreted as family separation and the impacts it has on the family.

Humanize

• • Choreographer: Makyra Turner

  • Performer(s): Makyra Turner

  • Music by: Ryuichi Sakamoto

  • Research Topic: Purity Culture and Women's Equality

  • Choreographer's Notes: This piece reflects the challenges that women have suffered as a result of the patriarchy's high expectations and the realization that they no longer need to meet those unfair standards. That they should be free to make mistakes, experience, and simply be themselves without social pressure and judgment.

A Woman's Voice

• • Choreographer: Jeanna Parrish

  • Performer(s): Jeanna Parrish

  • Music by: Eryn Allen Krane

  • Research Topic: Women's Mental Health Rights

  • Choreographer's Notes: A dance piece entering the mind of a young woman in a judgmental world; struggling to find peace as a woman while trying to fight for women’s rights.

In Between His Fingers...

• • Choreographer: Kimora Goodwine

  • Performer(s): Luisen Asanji, Kimora Goodwine, Louisetta Koh, Brianna Moscoso, Hellen Paredes-Jeronimo

  • Music by: Richard Carter

  • Research Topic: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

  • Choreographer's Notes: Casual office flirting transitions into sexual harassment. Woman reaches out to HR, and the man feigns innocence. Later the man shows more aggression, the woman goes back to HR and reports him. Eventually, the man is fired for harassing the woman.

And What Do I Get?

• • Choreographer: Jazmyne Cesar

  • Performer(s): Jazmyne Cesar

  • Music by: ABBA

  • Research Topic: Unequal Pay for Women in the Workforce

  • Choreographer's Notes: Women, we work hard just to get almost nothing! In this dance, you will see a dynamic of movements that showcase the struggles of a woman in the cycle of being underpaid.

... NHSDA Inductions ...

&

... VPA Dance Awards ...

... Acknowledgments ...

Bayardo Martinez; Dance Department Chairperson

Julia Smith; Dance Faculty

Jenna Nelson; Dance Faculty

Kevin Goodwine; Dance Adjunct Faculty

Sandra Atkinson; Visual & Performing Arts Coordinator

Temisha Richardson; PGCPS Dance Supervisor

Jaclyn Martin; PGCPS Dance Resource Teacher

Malik Savage; Auditorium Tech

Sandra Atkinson; Lighting Designer

Mariana Ramos; Sound

Nigisti Bohadgo; Student Support

Brianna Brewley; Student Support

Christian Caldwell; Student Support

Shenoa Medina; Student Support

Ressa Pinnock; Student Support

NKenge Barker; Principal