There were tears in Akeya Herbert’s eyes.
“I see all their faces,” she said as she stood under a spotlight at Cutting Edge gym at Prospect Reef. “It comes to me in my dream again and again, and I feel crushed by death. But I must go on. I must live for my mama and for my papa.”
The 12-year-old was acting the part of a slave during Pangea’s Heart, an original production by Killi Killi Dance Studio that is being performed nightly through Saturday.
The nearly two-hour play, which features six dancer-actors, is set in the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The cast wore African print costumes as they performed for a small audience of about ten people on Monday.
The actors endeavoured to show the difficulties of slaves’ lives.
“I’m scared of what they are going to do to me,” Shamar Trim said during a monologue. “Do you see this? Human souls sold like products on someone’s shopping list?”
See the July 17, 2014 edition for full coverage.
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