Photo by Ahmad Odeh via Unsplash.
One dancer from every Dallas ISD high school performed in a video to celebrate collaboration and raise awareness for the necessity of arts in the district.
The project was done to Melba Moore’s rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is often referred to as the Black national anthem, according to DISD.
Bella Pasion was the Bryan Adams dancer. Her instructors are Amy Solorio and LaSheta Skinner. Pasion and the other dancers perform a dance choreographed by Moriah Perry, a student at Booker T. Washington. At the end of the piece are the words, “In Dallas, the arts connect us all.”
The video was released ahead of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last slaves in Texas learned they had been freed. They heard of the news from federal troops, who arrived in Galveston in 1865.
Juneteenth just became a federal holiday this week.
