VIDEOS
Hip Hop Dance Interpretation of Early African-American Gullah Gospel Music
Music: “Jesus Knows All About My Trouble,” Moving Star Hall Singers
Album: “Been in the Storm So Long,” Moving Star Hall Singers, John’s Island, SC, Smithsonian Folkway recording. (This collection of spirituals and shouts, prayers and folk tales was recorded on John’s Island, SC in the early 1960’s. John’s Island is one of a cluster of islands near Charleston, SC. These islands held in common a Gullah folk culture with survivals that are among the oldest forms of African-American folk life to be found in the United States.
Set Location: The Angel Oak Tree, John’s Island, SC. The tree is one of the oldest live oaks in the Southeastern USA, approximately 900 years old.
This dance piece is in honor of Lamar’s great grandmother, Janie Hunter, famed singer and story teller from the mid-20th Century.
Interpretive dancing to "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, at his retreat house at the Penn Center near Beaufort, SC, where he wrote many speeches.
Lamar Hunter shows his powerful speech through dance.
Lamar Hunter's remake to his first video to the same song, "Moving Star Hall Singers- Jesus Knows All About My Trouble," but three years later.
Through music and dancing, Lamar connects with his ancestry at the Moving Star Hall.
"Moving Star and the Mentor"
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