Stand up Speak Out

Our first theme from the class was how Grecian urns act as talking vases, as a class every student had to take either a memory or cautionary tale. For our second project we worked as a class to create a film centered around the mythology of “Ode to Clotho”, the end result was beautiful, a power piece about female empowerment. Our final project as a class was to film and edit together a choreographed dance of Beyoncé’s “Cozy” from our own Marymount Manhattan dance class. 

A woman fighting against societal oppression and expectations finds her inner strength and power to break free. This film explores what it is like for women to be brought down by others based on societal standards of what is beauty. 

As a crew member of Ode to Clotho, I worked as a Co Director and worked in post production to assemble the project. 

This performance was based on Beyoncé’s “Cozy”. Dancers from Marymount Manhattan College were able to create solos to this song using inspiration from Embodied Africanist Aesthetics. 

On this project, I was able to film using one of the cameras on this project. I was able to operate the camera using a gimbal to capture the wide shot of the dancers' individual solos.