The education curators at Weatherspoon Art Museum asked us to develop something creative with children to accompany their Leonardo Drew exhibit called Existed. We took a group of our youngest performance students to view his installations and recorded their responses to the material. The strange and arresting objects in Drew's work lends itself to introspection and the expression of curiosities. At the children’s direction, we found items that reminded us of the ones they saw in Drew's work and used them as props. Their unguarded response and natural choreography gave us great material to apply to Charles Mingus' "Freedom" and Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Blacknuss." The end result was a very moving commentary on life, loss and rebirth all from a child's perspective.

Directed by Kerri Mubaarak and Angela Williams Tripp. Photos by Martin Tucker.