Vision and Voice, a recent student hip-hop showcase performance from late summer was an incredible success from top to bottom at Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton, N.J.
The show featured wonderful performances from our middle and high school aged students, with two dance numbers, four individual spoken word pieces, one large group spoken word piece, and an absolutely PACKED playhouse full of friends, family, and members of the Trenton community coming in to see what our students have done.
The playhouse thanks students, their caregivers, Vision and Voice Camp Coordinator Johanna Tolentino and her talented team of teaching artists (Phillip, Nico, Lucas, Pete, Jack), and the generous grants from the state and donations from folks like you that allowed us to put on this show!
They appreciate Romeo’s Pizza in Plainsboro, N.J., for donating the pizza for the students’ wrap party! We had a wonderful time celebrating the hard work put in creating and rehearsing this uniquely personal performance.
All throughout our Vision and Voice program, in addition to our regular teaching artists, we brought in special guest instructors who are also out there doing the work creating specialized hip-hop art… we kicked things off with a special presentation and workshop with Trenton’s very own Poor Righteous Teachers, and we also brought in Chesney Snow to lead a workshop on beatboxing, Shanika Boston to lead a workshop on hip-hop dance, and Leon Rainbow to teach the students basics of tagging in the world of graffiti art.
Huge thank you to each of our guest instructors for bringing their gifts to even greater enhance what our hip-hop summer camp program helped to build!