The award-winning performance troupe Urban Bush Women and the National Song and Dance Company of Mozambique join together to present a program that demonstrates the rich and complex music and dance of Southeast Africa, and shows how dance, music, narration, and puppetry can be combined to tell a richly layered story of a young girl's heroism. Through performance excerpts from the commissioned work, Shadow's Child, the company addresses issues of intolerance, embracing difference, and finding strength and sense of self in difficult times (recorded in 2003 at C. D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, VA).
Urban Bush Women: Shadow's Child