The “Look & Feel” of the film – Part 2 (Artistry – dance, music)
If anything, art is about versatility. This is the gift that keeps giving as each day we learn something new, discover something new about ourselves and acquire new skills. I’ve always hated boxing myself therefore I thought I should explore more of what I think is impossible for me – dancing. In history, dance was an important place through which black art makers expressed identity and envisioned freedom, even if their dancing challenged policing assumptions about how black bodies ought to move.  For this, I’ve always incorporated some type of dancing in all my projects and this might have to do with my love for music which I talk about in the film storyline. It is a domino effect – a piece falls upon the fall of another and I proudly respect and celebrate both forms of expressions. Dancing is a language of a story mostly untold from within – krumping, contemporary and music is an expression tool or an instrument for that language - music genre. From analyzing and breaking down different choreographies and ways of expression through contemporary dancing, the ones that stood out and I did in the film come from the following artists.
 #1 – Solange Knowles
One thing that stands out from Solange Knowles as an artist is her courage of being different from what everyone is custom to, happily so, and this is purely evident on her artworks. Her worldview, music, and dance style is always thought-provoking for an average person but also a masterpiece too. In her music video “cranes, there are specific moments in which the movements force me into a stillness of watching. There is a scene of 7 women sharing a lavender dress, draped to each other with a mountain as their background. One woman shifts her energy to the right foot, returns to the left and sinks back into her hip. Next Solange does a soft left-right rock. This sold me out immediately.
#3 – Odissi dancing.
I remember in my elementary school years, grade 6 to be precise, we had to do a full presentation to the class on a religion the Life Orientation subject teacher chose for us. The religion I had to present was Hinduism. Being curious and open-minded, I was fortunate enough to learn more about the belief, the Hindu Gods and how Hindus worship through various practices, dancing being one of them. I remember I was blown away by the art of Odissi dance and I thought since this project is so personal to me and in actual fact an introspection of my overall past character, I should incorporate this dance style in the film.
