The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast. ' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.