Aisha Moyo Ussery

The cast includes Jia Taylor (Sarah), Eric Payton Briscoe Jr. (Joshua), Kevin Haliburton (James), Daintee Glover Jones (Elizabeth), "G" Allen Mack (Reverend George), Mozelle Moses-Felder (Savannah), Darryl H. Thompson (Narrator), Aisha "Moyo" Ussery (Abbey) and dancers Brooke Barnes, Scarlett Barnes, Walter Hull and Vincent James.
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Aisha "Moyo" Ussery (Abbey) is an educator of dance, theatre, music, the Word of God and other scholastic disciplines at Alexander Hamilton Middle School, the Ensemble Theatre, Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, and Harvest Time Church. in Houston.Aisha's professional work in theatre is extensive.She has performed and/or choreographed "Once on this Island," "One Mo' Time," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Houston and Icelandic Tour), "Crowns," "Two Trains Running," "Sparkle," "Five Guys Named Mo," and many others.She performed in Vh1's "2 Legit: The MC Hammer Story."In addition, Aisha has sung with/for Jonathan Butler, Ronnie Laws and family, Malik Yoba, Sean Levert, Howard Hewitt, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowlands of Destiny's Child, H-Town, and others.

HISD music teacher Phillip Hall and dance instructor Aisha Ussery will travel to South Africa to share their artistic talents with elementary and middle school students in an experimental cultural exchange program.
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Ussery left on August 19, and Hall is scheduled to leave on August 25.
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Hall is a piano instructor at HISD's Manuel Crespo Elementary School (7500 Office City Dr., 77012) and Ussery is a theater and dance teacher at HISD's Alexander Hamilton Middle School (139 East 20th Street, 77008).
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I am excited to survey the land and the needs of its people as it refers to education, life and the fine arts," said Ussery. "The exchange of knowledge between Africa's schools and Hamilton Middle School will be life-changing. My art form and I shall never be the same after touching the soil and souls of South Africa."

As part of the artistic mission there, Hall and Ussery will examine cultural similarities and differences in arts education, and both hope to initiate a student exchange program with Crespo and Hamilton schools.

Ussery left on August 19, and Hall is scheduled to leave on August 25.
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Hall is a piano instructor at HISD's Manuel Crespo Elementary School (7500 Office City Dr., 77012) and Ussery is a theater and dance teacher at HISD's Alexander Hamilton Middle School (139 East 20th Street, 77008).
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I am excited to survey the land and the needs of its people as it refers to education, life and the fine arts," said Ussery. "The exchange of knowledge between Africa's schools and Hamilton Middle School will be life-changing. My art form and I shall never be the same after touching the soil and souls of South Africa."

As part of the artistic mission there, Hall and Ussery will examine cultural similarities and differences in arts education, and both hope to initiate a student exchange program with Crespo and Hamilton schools.

Aisha Ussery