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“Journey of a Thousand Dreams”(Journey) is a multi-tiered creative and scholarly project exploring dance/performance, field and embodied research, and pedagogy from the subject of African and African diaspora dance as embodied ancestral inheritance.
Journey… relies on embodied, creative, auto-ethnographic research methods to yield a range of outcomes illuminating African and African diasporic dance as a valued inheritance of purpose and knowledge that passes along from generation to generation in societal contexts towards cultural sustainability and enlightenment.
It is through my life as a queer, African American, African spiritualist (vodoun), and priest, that I have found global belonging in the cultures of the world. I share this experience with the public through my work in an effort to demystify that which remains oppressed and repressed. I am compelled by the subject of embodied ancestral inheritances as a life-affirming and sustaining phenomena in the lives of individuals and communities at-large.
Kumpo.MOVKumpo Masquerade (Cassamance, Senegal)
IMG_3504.MOVchildren playing makeshift drums (Bènin)
IMG_5445 2.movMami Wata ceremony (Bènin)
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