While this was improv, I based certain movements around landmarks in the poem, to represent different ideas in my dancing. The concept of the limbo is most repeated in the poem, and so my movements on those phrases are the biggest, drawing importance to the concept. They are all tall and expansive movements, based on Brathwaite’s explanation on how the limbo is made to represent and honor the slave ships, but also how the people came out on the other side. My movement also directly parallels specific lines, leaning back on “down down down where the silence lies” to represent the extremeness of that description. The biggest continuity throughout my movement is that I move specifically on the beats where Brathwaite speaks, drawing attention to his specific pauses and accents in the poem.