For the most part, my project has stayed the same from when I posted my project seeds, except that it has been cleaned up and refined somewhat.
Project description: The audience is handed small, handheld flashlights. 9 bodies, dressed all in wrote wardrobes, encounter each other on an open space. They begin to walk a few feet from one another, occupying their own space. With their backs to the audience, the song "Que Culpa Tengo Yo," by Albita Rodriguez begins to play, but only the slow introduction which runs approximately 50secs from the start of the intro. Music fades, and the bodies all begin to say as a melodic beach sound begins to play in the background. For the next 4 minutes the bodies begin to move around the space following a few simple rules they were given prior to beginning the piece. Throughout the piece, the audience is allowed to shine their flashlight on whomever and wherever they deem necessary or important. The piece ends with all bodies clumped together in the center and all flashlights shining at them.
Project Context: people's from both the United States and Cuba face the realities of crossing the Atlantic Ocean, or find some connection to those they knew who tried and succeeded, or tried and ultimately lost their lives.
Research:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/americas/01iht-cubans.4.19039147.html
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/16/cubans-risked-escape-communism-see-sailed-america/
https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/05/economist-explains-21
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-25/news/mn-31080_1_u-s-coast-guard
Project Goals: No matter or relations to one another, the loss of life of Cubans crossing the Atlantic Ocean is atrocious and should never have occurred. A land that is so close to us, yet was so disconnected and forced it's people to make these dangerous treks that lead in the loss of life for many should have never existed. Just like some Cubans fled to avoid persecution and death from a regime they feared, we Americans, many of us had to flee our own homelands in many instances, and should have been able to see the connection we all hold.
New Relationship: Hopefully, people will see that we Americans and Cubans are people, and as people first we are all human beings, who can all find themselves in troubling and dangerous situations, but we need to be able to reach out and help others, and not sit idly by as those with less suffer and perish.
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