Here and Not Here (2017)

This intergenerational dance brings together pre-professional dancers and children to excavate the grief process through memory and companioning. The memories of the departed circulate through space/time and within the bodily memories of the grieving and their fellow travelers. As Brandon Shaw (2015) relates, "Death, then, is not only becoming inanimate, becoming "it," but a dispersal, becoming "they."

land acknowledgment:

I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Monacan Indian Nation, a Siouan-speaking tribe of the piedmont and mountain regions of Virginia. These lands were occupied by a government that also enslaved Africans and African Americans, and the legacy of this oppression continues to impact Black and Indigenous peoples today. I support the Alliance of Native Seed Keepers, Black Lives Matter, and Showing Up for Racial Justice.