- Hello, Detroit.

I'm Satori Shakoor, and I'm so excited to bring you a special series of episodes from "Detroit Performs Live."

We've put together some of the most incredible performances across genres, jazz, youth talent, acoustic sets, dance, multicultural showcases, and spoken word.

You won't wanna miss these unforgettable performances from some of the city's best.

It's a celebration of the amazing artists who make Detroit's creative scene so vibrant.

Tune in and experience the magic of "Detroit Performs Live."

(lively music) - [Announcer] Funding for "Detroit Performs" is provided by the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, Gregory Haynes and Richard Sonenklar, the Kresge Foundation, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.

Thank you.

(lively music continues) (screen whooshes) - Welcome to "Detroit Performs Live."

I'm Satori Shakoor, coming to you from 234 Piquette Street, soon to be the new home of Detroit PBS.

Today, we're moving to the rhythm of some of Detroit's finest dancers.

From the innovative choreography of BAIRA to the cultural expressions of the Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy, this episode is a celebration of movement, creativity, and expression.

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You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

Just 'cause I walk as if I have oil wells pumping in my living room?

Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes, shoulders falling down like teardrops, weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my sassiness upset you?

(voiceover chuckles) Don't take it so hard just 'cause I laugh (voiceover chuckles) as if I have gold mines digging in my own backyard.

You can shoot me with your words, you can cut me with your lies, you can kill me with your hatefulness, but just like life, I rise.

Does my sexiness offend you?

Aw, does it come as a surprise that I dance as if I have diamonds at the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise.

Up from a past rooted in pain, I rise, a black ocean leaping and wide.

Welling and swelling, I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise.

Into a daybreak miraculously clear, I rise.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave, and so, naturally... - I rise!

- I rise!

- I rise!

- [Group] I rise!

- [Voiceover] Rising.

(lively RnB music) - [Narrator] Because as a Black woman, I am deep black soil.

They have tried to pollute me with a poison called America.

They have tried to scorch my roots with dope.

They have tried to drown my dreams with alcohol, with too many men who spit their foam on top of my fruit 'til it drops rotten in America's parks, but I am deep blue-black soil and you can hear the sound of my walking as I bring forth green songs from a seasoned breast as I burn on our evening bed of revolution.

I, being a Black woman, know only the way of the womb, for I am deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep deep, deep, deep red soil for our emerging Black nation, and so, as I say again, and I probably can't say too often, that we do be about that because, in the past, we've been other things.

In the past, Black women, Black children, Black people in general have not, as I say to you again, loved themselves.

Black women especially have been many things in this country and quite often, when I talk to people, I always tell young sisters that you have to be more than your mamas was.

You have to be more than people think you be.

You have to be, because in the past, we have been this.

We are songs yet unsung.

We are music yet unplayed.

We be Black women.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Singing in the night.

We be lovers yet unloved.

We be wives yet unwed.

We be Black women.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Singing in the night.

(lively RnB music continues) (singer vocalizing) (lively music) (screen whooshes) - What a stunning celebration of dance!

These performers brought energy, emotion, and innovation to the stage.

Thank you for tuning in, and be sure to keep moving with us on "Detroit Performs Alive."

- [Announcer] Funding for "Detroit Performs" is provided by the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, Gregory Haynes and Richard Sonenklar, the Kresge Foundation, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.

Thank you.

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