In my role as an artist in residence, I moved about creating performance, political in scope, during the passing period of a large Chicago public High School. These performances were meant to instruct and inspire the student body in artistic labor and political protest.
I attempt to harness the regenerative, transformative and transcendent powers of social dance and indigenous music, by staging public dances and drumming processionals, in short intervals, in the windows of store fronts and down the Boulevards of the urban landscape.
Ritual is risk, leap, a pulling back of the curtain, the private life made public reveal. Against the current of the very essence of life, our subject is everywoman and everyman, she is deft of hand, resourceful, open, and free. She is a high wire act without a net, she is a reflection of our best selves lived well, loud, and proud.