“There are people who are angry when I make political work and do not want to come and see the shows, and there are people who think I should only make political work,” he says in a phone interview before coming the Dallas.
“I’m a black choreographer, so the work to some people is already going to be political no matter what. Let’s say I make a work to classical music. People will ask, ‘What’s he trying to say by making a dance using classical music? He’s black.’ But if I actually use hip-hop music, am I doing what people are expecting me to do? Does it say one thing or another? The movement and the storytelling should be the things that draw people in, but I know that these are challenges that I take on. They are a reality.”
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