{"id":1920,"date":"2012-09-30T21:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2013-02-28T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:37:49","slug":"celebrating-mujasi-29-09-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/celebrating-mujasi-29-09-12\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATING MUJASI 29.09.12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CELEBRATING MUJASI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This Is A War Cry.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The warriors are prepared.\u00a0 They have come ready to give out of sacrifice.\u00a0 They come ready to give life-bearing fruit.\u00a0 Too, the warriors are armed.\u00a0 They are armed with their finances.\u00a0 They are armed with their prayers.\u00a0 They are armed with their God-given talents, skilled abilities and creative acumen.\u00a0 They are armed with their dedication.\u00a0 But most of all, they are armed with love.\u00a0 They are equipped for battle.\u00a0 But this battle is different.\u00a0 This battle is not for the faint of heart, the ballerina types.\u00a0 This battle is for the strong and courageous of heart, the dancers that drop beads of sweat that are gritty and free-style. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sunset scorches the harvest sky a fiery salmon that streaks south before succumbing to the night\u2019s outer darkness to the east.\u00a0 A full moon hangs suspended in animated glory.\u00a0 Its illumination provides a guiding light for the traveling troops.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The sleeping dust nesting beneath the warrior\u2019s feet awakens and scurries into the nocturnal air at the incoming uproar.\u00a0 The warrior\u2019s feet march in sync into battle.\u00a0 Their syncopated stomps are so harmonious it morphs into a life-giving heartbeat of drums thumping on rhythmic four counts.\u00a0 The thumps grow louder and louder until a life-pulsating heartbeat sounds throughout the land. The healing heartbeat of restoration guides the warrior\u2019s feet to dance.\u00a0 When their feet dance, a seismic force of life-birthing tremors shakes the earth.\u00a0 The dancers become a ramose of sporadic interpretations woven through the tapestry of mobile expressions.\u00a0 Even rhythm-challenged white girls get down, dancing like injured robots in need of dance lessons, as experienced house dancers stomp holes into the ground, and gays J-set, drop to the ground-like it\u2019s hot-and spring up again in a split second.\u00a0 <\/em>Every heart is in on the action.\u00a0 Even the ministers of music deliver nothing short of sensational sermons; DJ 1derful of Sunday School lays down Reel People\u2019s featuring Tony Momrelle<\/span>, \u201cGolden Lady<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d(Louie Vega Roots Mix), DJ Lynee Denise of Chitlin\u2019 Circuit guides the dancers to an oasis of afro and deep house paradise, DJ Stanzeff of Tambor fame leads the parishioners to “The Bright Forest<\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u201d\u00a0 Ramon Rawsoul, Founding Father of The Gathering, takes the people all around the world, DJ Salah Ananse of Sunday School has the dancers \u201cBody Drummin’<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d as DJ Yusef of Free Ur Soul serves a heartfelt reminder that \u201cLife Starts Today<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 Every heart dances as if to call down rain from the sky.\u00a0 It\u2019s a time of celebration.\u00a0 It\u2019s a time of life.\u00a0 It\u2019s a time of healing.\u00a0 For this is Mujasi\u2019s healing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Who is this Mujasi that commands the hearts of the known and the unknown to give unconditionally through finances, prayer and dance?\u00a0 Who is this Mujasi that causes\u00a0six ministers of music, from various deep and soulful house music soirees around the city, to set aside their petty differences, uphold their common mantle, deep house music, and come together to support a benevolent cause?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It takes a community\u2026.It takes a village.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

His name translates courageous warrior.\u00a0 He is but only four years of age and yet a young man of many years.\u00a0 Mujasi, the lad with a heart of steel and a heart of gold, was recently diagnosed with LCH-Unifocal (Langerhans cell histiocytosis, unifocal) a rare auto-immune disease that effects eight out of one million children.\u00a0 The much-needed treatments for this rare disease are aggressive and expensive.\u00a0 The treatments are so astronomically expensive that health care only covers a minute fraction of the costs.\u00a0 Enter the city\u2019s house music community and the city\u2019s music community at large to assist with financial support and generous efforts.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mujais\u2019s prayer sings in the air, \u201cThere is no affliction in me.\u201d\u00a0 Although, not physically present on the battlefield his spirit dances with his mother\u2019s heart that serves a faithful reminder when five years earlier, Mom danced with Son in womb at various house music functions across the city.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mujasi\u2019s mother, Theresa McGhee leads the warriors to battle.\u00a0 Mother Theresa, the host of the Sunday evening gathering titled Sunday Dinner, fights for nothing less than the best.\u00a0 Mother Theresa is not for show, but possesses a treasured heart of humility.\u00a0 She diligently works hard \u201cin the game\u201d to support her son and to keep him happy.\u00a0 She gives her all.\u00a0 Her dance of triumph emanates from her heart.\u00a0 She gracefully dances onto the battle field.\u00a0 She adorns the battlegrounds.\u00a0 Two dimples, worth a million dollars, dot about to and fro.\u00a0 Her smile is awe-inspiring.\u00a0 Although petite in frame, her spirit structures the battlefield\u2019s strategic movements.\u00a0 Every eye gazes stunned.\u00a0 Her life-giving joy touches every soul she encounters.\u00a0 A close stare in those bright as the moon, two-doe eyes aglow in hazel, reveals no hint of sorrow as her vibrant visage, besieged with two cheekbones that are perched as high as mountaintops, reveals no trace of doom or gloom.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

She rallies the troops with a valiant heart-felt proclamation.\u00a0 She is animated.\u00a0 She is emotional.\u00a0 She talks in cant, a sing-song pattern that practically eludes a poetess historic of spoken word.\u00a0 She sways onstage and she bends over at the outpouring of generosity and support and most of all love from her brothers and sisters.\u00a0 She tells of the many telephone calls that she has received, even from former-school peers that she no longer recalls.\u00a0 She cries.\u00a0 The troops cry.\u00a0 She speaks of not only her son\u2019s healing but the healing of the warriors through their giving.\u00a0 The troops respond with valiant shouts of agreement that materialize in the warm air.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Back on the battlefield, the dancers know something.\u00a0 Yes, they carry a secret.\u00a0 Lend them your ear.\u00a0 The secret whispers, \u201cAlready the battle is won.\u00a0 Mother and Son have the victory.\u201d\u00a0 So, the warriors dance in victory.\u00a0 Death will not show its face tonight, the next night or any other night thereafter.\u00a0 Not even, a hint of death\u2019s venom in slave- induced sickness will be felt.\u00a0 Even the universe bares witness with a miraculous message of majestic proportions.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Look up in the night\u2019s sky.\u00a0 Yes, up in the air.\u00a0 See, the harvest moon illuminated in its entire splendor.\u00a0 There is something different about this moon.\u00a0 The lunar creation shimmers with a blue magnetic ring that shivers around its spherical form.\u00a0 The moon speaks.\u00a0 It speaks truth.\u00a0 Hear the words, \u201cThis is not the courageous warrior\u2019s<\/em> end but the courageous warrior\u2019s<\/em> beginning.\u00a0 We celebrate you, Mujasi.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

To donate and for more information:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Healing Mujasi by Theresa McGee<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Words & photography by AJ Dance\/Except flyer<\/p>\n

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