And sit in that seat and get up and know that they gotta go do something about it. So it allows them to digest it - feel the anger, the pain, the joy, whatever they feel. To see something happen in a likely way that it could happen, in a likely way that it has happened, and experience it and its theater. People are responding well because it allows them to go in without preconceived notions and experience it. On how people are responding to the show, which strives for a nuanced portrayal of police relations I know him and he's a kid that you would hope would never do the things that he's done, but he has. And the one that I portray in this one, Jimmy, I met the guy. Extended conversations with gang members. Extended conversations with law enforcement officers - chief of police, a lot of different people. I did a lot of interviewing with the police. I did a lot of homework on all of the ideas that I'm creating. She wants the show's characters to help demonstrate "how young people are marginalized by their ethnicity and their ZIP code."ĭance At 42, Matthew Rushing Might Just Be The Peyton Manning Of Dance The musical deals specifically with the topic of gun violence and police shootings in cities, providing audiences with "an inward look into the challenging experiences of young, disenfranchised African Americans and Latinos growing up in the inner city challenged with education, religion, police, gangs, and trying to make a living," as the producers' website describes.Īllen is the writer, choreographer and director of the production. It wraps up a brief run at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center Sunday. Her latest project is a multimedia production of dance, video, music and visual art called FREEZE FRAME.Stop the Madness. She's won numerous awards for acting and choreography. Currently she is the executive producer for Grey's Anatomy. She was a producer on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World, about life on a historically black college campus.
She played the tough but tender dance instructor Lydia Grant on the 1980s show Fame. Lee Tonks/Courtesy of Debbie Allen Dance Academyĭebbie Allen is a big name in television. Debbie Allen's FREEZE FRAME.Stop the Madness is a musical featuring dance, video and visual art that explores gun violence in cities.
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