focuses on community and the African diaspora.# She is the founder of Movement of the People## Dance Company, a group that addresses# sociocultural injustices through dance.

In collaboration with New# York City's Lincoln Center,## she performed a piece called# what's left of spring.

Tonight, she shares her Brief But# Spectacular take on dance as activism JOYA POWELL, Founder, Movement of the People# Dance Company: For me, dance is activism.

Dance itself is what gets us thro within that, dance itself is the resistance# that we need in order to create change.

Today, my company, Movement# of the People Dance Company,## will be performing an excerpt of a work in# progress p "What's Left of Spring" is an interactive# piece that is Afrofuturistic, that looks at## Africanist art and dance, that tries to# ask questions about where we are today,## thinking about our sociopolitical# culture and the issues that we're facing.

WOMAN: Sitting here in the# atrium of Lincoln Center,## 61 West 62nd Street, or so they think.# They congregate here to be entertaine JOYA POWELL: Some of the themes that# we look at is the COVID pandemic.

WOMAN: I said it's COVID in the house.

Let# me hear you say.

Like you mean it, come on.

JOYA POWELL: Systemic racism.

WOMAN: I can't breathe.

I can't breathe.

I# JO YA POWELL: We also look at what rituals# that we need to be in place in order to## live in this world together.

And we also# look at global warming and climate change.

WOMAN: Welcome to mahogany's battle# of the natural disasters.

Give it up.

JOYA POWELL: For me, one of# the things I think about when## I think of dance as activism is# the thou and thinking about the fact that social# movements has the word movement of it.

So we're looking at the body.

Where does the# body live in creating change?

We feel th there's a dialogue between ourselves and our# embodied practices and the audience and our## communities in order to try to figure# out how to be in this world together.

WOMAN: And so they continue their journey,## and collectively figure out that the way# back to th JOYA POWELL: My name is Joya Powell, and this## is my Brief But Spectacular# take o AMNA NAWAZ: And you can find more Brief But## Spectacular videos online# at PBS.org/New