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When a citywide dance competition brings to the forefront the issues that most young people face today—peer pressure, violence and sexual abstinence, a young man named Sean struggles for answers—and to understand, finally, real manhood's price.
Blood Money is a new play by the producers of the Worth Waiting For play and it is filled with all types of dance---traditional African, breakdance, hiphop—but in particular, Blood Money displays a dance craze birthed in South Central LA—Krump dancing.
Krump dancing was born out a community of young men desperate to find a way to relieve angry aggression—without killing one another. The dance is wild, at times comical—but in the end the tension is released through the dance. It is not just a dance, but also a veritable struggle for answers. And the struggle--- its resolution, all happen in the context of the dance.
The dances are exciting, but a riveting script engages the audience and compels them to reflect on the issues confronting the characters' lives ---and probably their own lives, as well.
Although the play mirrors the darkness of an inner city where the homicides of young men are daily occurrences, light emerges as the young men, themselves, find the ultimate solution to the 'death dilemma'.
Blood Money is choreographed and scored by a host of young men from Kansas City, many of whom are featured performers in the play. They are renown as some of the finest dancers in this city.
Blood Money was written by the author of the Worth Waiting For Play, which has been staged every Black History Month to sell-out audiences for the past 7 years.
Urban Youth Leadership and LIFEGUARD Youth Development of the Women's Clinic of Kansas City are producing the play, which is supported by the US Department of HHS Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Service Bureau.
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