Activist through the art of dance

First things first, what is an activist? consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing businesses, rallies, street marches, strikes, sit ins, and hunger strikes. When I think about my own experiences as an activist and/or displaying activism I remember this movie called Honey, which is your basic, average dance flick that comes on TNT every monday or tuesday night. This film is about a ballerina who chose street dancing over ballet and became a hip hop instructor in an old youth center but the bank was threatening to kick them out because they were not making enough money but little did the bank know doing that would cause half of the kids that attended the class to resort to a life of crime and street gangs. So basically this center was the only thing that was giving them hope. Honey comes to the conclusion that they need to save the youth center but doing a dance show for a fundraiser to try to keep their dream and place to let go of anger alive. Honey sticks out to me as a true activist because not only was fighting for this youth center a good cause but a better choice for young kinds living on the streets. This may not seem like a big deal to most people but this film that is best off of a true story impacts a lot of people and encourages them to stay off the streets and do something more productive with their lives besides gang banging. Now, taking a look at the art aspect of this, during this show, honey did not only include hip hop but ballet as well, both of which are considered dancing which makes them both a form of art. In the end they reached their goal and the youth center became not only a hip hop studio but a ballet one as well