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Art as a Political Statement

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In this week's choreography class, we split into groups of four, reflected on one of five different stimuli, engaged in group discussion, and explored a creative task to facilitate movement.     Within the initial practical choreography lesson, we were presented with five unique sources of artistic stimuli in the form of different artworks ranging from portraits and performance art to architecture, all of which we had no background knowledge of. After being split into groups of four, we were allowed the opportunity to collaborate, discuss and note the different initial interpretations and concepts that we would later explore. We noted the emotions these works evoked and movement ideas related to the image, words, context, descriptions and questions on each stimulus. My group was paired with Adrian Brandon's work' Stolen - Portrait of Breonna Taylor'. (Brandon, n.d.) (Brandon, n.d.) As we did not yet know the intended message of the image, our spider diagram of ideas mai...