Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only to see performer/author Daniel Alexander Jones commanding the stage, moving so seductively that one cannot help but be enraptured by his grace. Jones' presence dominates the piece, overshadowing the two other performers, Daniel Dodd-Ellis and Jason Phelps. A hodgepodge "jam session" of black gay experience, superheroes, soul singing and Julia Child surreal fantasy, "Blood:Shock:Boogie" is wildly entertaining and ingenious at many points. Its greatest attribute is a lack of commitment to narrative and straightforward meaning, so that its entire commentary on life experience rests on the exact moment that its performers are onstage...
...knew with whom we were to sympathize. Here, too, the influence of the poetry reading is evident; this poem is meant to be read, or more accurately to be acted, in front of an audience that both knows its lit-crit and knows that it reveals a greatness of soul to despise...
...that which welcomed me in the fall of 1993--he evoked four years of promise, hope and change. I especially remember how he urged us to explore the extent of the school, to take risks and challenge our perceptions. This emphasis was memorable not because it unexpectedly illuminated my soul, but rather because it seemed somewhat banal and unnecessary. Who would not be open to newness, I wondered...
Most upsetting, however, is Choi's definition of the aim of liberal education as the production of a "whole human being... whose soul has come to rest." I think an education that produced a soul at rest would be horrifying. A liberal education should produce a soul always in motion, always striving, always reaching--a soul trying every day to be better than it was the day before...
...DOLE Dole Man campaign rendition of Soul Man is silenced after Soul owners cry foul...