Dance With the Gantt: "LIFT" Documentary Screening & Talkback

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 12:30 pm to 02:30 pm UTC-05:00

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture | Charlotte

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
Publisher/HostHarvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
Dance With the Gantt: "LIFT" Documentary Screening & Talkback
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View the inspirational documentary, "LIFT", a story of children who turn trauma into triumph through dance. Stay for the talkback!
About this Event

Visit the Gantt to view an inspirational documentary, LIFT, about homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young unhoused, and home-insecure ballet dancers in New York City. Dancer, teacher, and Gantt Golden Year Dancer-in-Residence, LaTanya Johnson will lead a talkback after the film viewing.

About the Documentary

Filmed over ten years, LIFT shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America. After performing globally, ballet dancer Steven Melendez returns to the Bronx shelter where he grew up to give back to his community, offering a New York Theatre Ballet workshop. His traumatic reaction to the shelter from his childhood sends him on an unexpected journey with three kids to reckon with a past he had escaped from through ballet.

As young dance students, Victor, Yolanssie, and Sharia face the same chasm of home insecurity that long separated Steven from his audience and made the arts inaccessible to many children who share his background. His young mentees offer him insight into turning a hidden trauma into dance, and together they make an aristocratic art form into an expression all their own.

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Image and reference credit: https://www.liftdocumentary.com


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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, 551 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, United States

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