School Performance: The Other Side (KCYS)

Clover’s mom says it isn’t safe to cross the fence that segregates their African American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups’ rules by sitting on top of the fence together. Jacqueline Woodson’s simple yet powerful book The Other Side comes to life in a dance piece from Bessie Award-winning choreographer Hope Boykin. When literal and figurative fences keep us ap...