Jim Henson Academy for Visual and Performing Arts
Dance Department Presents our
April 30th, 2019 @ 7pm
May 1st, 2019 @ 7pm
Northwestern High School (Auditorium)
Dr. E. Carlene Murray, Principal
Sandra Atkinson, Chair of VPA Dance Department & Artistic Director
Megan Atkinson, VPA Dance Faculty & Associate Artist Director
Title: Dance Like No One’s Watching
Choreographer: Kendra Marie
Composer: Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Missy Elliot feature
Music: “Please Don’t Stop the Music” “Feedback” “Burn It Up”
Dancers: All VPA Dance Majors
Title: Visible
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Composer: Black Violin
Music: Invisible
Dancers: Taina Headley, Samantha Majano, Helen Pelaez Garcia, Julissa Rivera, Leah Tolson
Title: War
Choreographer: Temeyah Warr
Composers: Johnny Manuel
Music: Blind Faith
Dancers: Temeyah Warr
Title: Aurora Borealis
Choreography: Alvin Mayes
Music engineered and mixed by: Alvin Mayes
Dance: Victorina Baptiste, Rayonna Dixon, Alexia Echols, Lauren Gomez Arroyo, Emperess Johnson, Andrea Martinez Chevez, Katherine Miranda Cruz, Amelia Parchment, Courtney Richardson, Temeyah Warr, Cashay Warren, Savanna Williams
[the Northern lights]
But wherever your mind and
Thoughts may lie
It is the beauty of God
That dances across the sky
Sheri Walters
Title: Swarm
Choreographer: Nana Edu
Composer: José Miguel Wisnik, Ernesto Lecuona, and Caetano Veloso
Music Title: Onqotô
Dancers: Nailah Barnes, Zakia Bradley, Emily Carcamo, Amanda Diabagate, Star Fashoto, Shafiq Hassan, Leah Temesegen, Skyy Twyman, Malikea Williams
Title:Disruption
Choreographer: Victorina Baptiste
Composers: Sohn
Music: The Wheel
Dancers: Victorina Baptiste
Title: Flying Free
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Composer: Our Native Daughters
Music: Barbados and Mama Cryin’ Long
Dancers: Lauren Gomez Arroyo, Emperess Johnson, Andrea Martinez Chevez, Katherine Miranda Cruz, Amelia Parchment, Courtney Richardson
Title: Agigitate
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Composer:Makaya McCraven
Music: Universal Beings
Dancers: Victorina Baptiste, Rayonna Dixon, Courtney Richardson, Cashay Warren
Title: Paper Thin
Choreographers: Alexia Echols
Composers: Hurks
Music: Said Who
Dancers:Alexia Echols
Part 1:
Title: Reoccurrence
Choreographer: Megan Atkinson
Music: “November”
Composer: Max Richter
Dancers: Joshuana Hayden, Cynthia Houndje, Jazzmin Williams, Arabella Wilson, Purathee Blair, Nailah Barnes, Zakia Bradley, Emily Carcamo, Amanda Diabagate, Star Fashoto, Shafiq Hassan, Leah Temesegen, Skyy Twyman, Malikea Williams
Part 2:
Title: Swept
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Music: Doublespeak
Composer: Nico Muhly
Dancers: Lauren Gomez Arroyo, Emperess Johnson, Andrea Martinez Chevez, Katherine Miranda Cruz, Amelia Parchment, Courtney Richardson, Victorina Baptiste, Rayonna Dixon, Alexia Echols, Temeyah Warr, Cashay Warren, Savanna Williams
Title: Missy Elliot Tribute
Choreographer: Jimmie Manners
Composer: Missy Elliot
Music: Jimmie Manners
Dancers: Royale Dance Company at Northwestern HS
Title: The Unknown
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Composer: The Sound of Science
Music: Quest
Dancers: Joshuana Hayden, Cynthia Houndje, Jazzmin Williams, Arabella Wilson, Purathee Blair
Title: Say My Name
Choreographer: Cashay Warren
Composers: Florence and The Machine
Music: Spectrum
Dancers: Cashay Warren
Title: Big Spender
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Music: Big Spender from Sweet Charity the Musical
Dancers:Taina Headley, Samantha Majano, Helen Pelaez Garcia, Julissa Rivera, Leah Tolson
Title: Never Take No For An Answer
Choreographer: Bayardo Martinez Jr.
Composer: James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome
Music Title: It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World (Cover and Original)
Dancers: Royale Dance Company at Northwestern HS
“There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.”
- Rihanna
Spoken Text: Sakina Seisay
Title: Lost Angels
Choreographer: Savanna Williams
Composers: James Vincent McMorrow
Music: Lost Angels
Dancer: Savanna Williams
Title: A Tribute To the White Family
Choreographer: Rayonna Dixon
Composers: Zack Hemsey
Music: The Way (instrumental)
Dancer: Rayonna Dixon
Title: The Take Over
Choreographer: Sandra Atkinson, MA
Composer: Lorde and DJ Koze
Music: Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Club der Ewihkieten
Dancers: Victorina Baptiste, Rayonna Dixon, Alexia Echols, Temeyah Warr, Cashay Warren, Savanna Williams
Title: ODE TO FOSSE: All The Girls
Choreographer: Kayla Harley
Composer: Skitch Henderson & Orchestra from SWEET CHARITY, Icognito
Music Title: Where am I Going?, Happy People Christian Prommer Remix
Dancer: Joshuana Hayden, Cynthia Houndje, Jazzmin Williams, Arabella Wilson, Purathee Blair, Nailah Barnes, Zakia Bradley, Emily Carcamo, Amanda Diabagate, Star Fashoto, Shafiq Hassan, Leah Temesegen, Skyy Twyman, Malikea Williams
Title: The Final Say
Choreographers: VPA Dance Seniors: Victorina Baptiste, Rayonna Dixon, Alexia Echols, Cashay Warren, and Temeyah Warr
Composers: Olafur Arnalds and Ludovico Einaudi
Music: Near light and Experience
Dancers: VPA Dance Seniors: Victorina Baptiste, Rayonna Dixon, Alexia Echols, Cashay Warren, and Temeyah Warr (exception Savanna Williams)
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