won’t She do it!

Judson Memorial Church, Pioneers Go East Crossroads Series, November 2022

Performers on stage at a cultural event, with one person in traditional attire dancing and a musician playing a drum to the left.

Performed in musical collaboration with sound alchemist Yuj, won't she do it! is a ritual for flowing, a reverence to waters and water as mother, and the mothers who water life.

Performed in musical collaboration with sound alchemist Yuj, won't she do it! is a ritual for flowing, a reverence to waters and water as mother, and the mothers who water life.

May the fertile waters of the earth gestate all possibilities….May the ground hold us up as we reach for the lushness above. May the rain quench the eternal thirst. May laughter soothe the broken hearts. May this dance shake what is frozen. May these songs illuminate what is hidden.

A ballet dancer performing on stage illuminated by purple lighting, with an audience seated in front watching the performance.
A woman dancing on a wooden floor under purple lighting, wearing a sparkly top and loose trousers.
A ballet dancer performing on stage under purple lighting, wearing a shiny, sequined top and a long skirt, with one arm raised and the other extended to the side.

A celebration of fertility, matrilineage, and the fertility of Mother Earth.

This ritual weaves the ways practices of reverence to and with motherhood. Serving tea to my mother and grandmother, channeling the living spirit of the waters, nourishing the audience with sweet oranges

Mother is the pulse of creation. The pulse of generation. The pulse of life.

People seated in rows, watching a performance, with one woman standing at the front, possibly performing or speaking, in a large, wooden-floored hall.

“Get in Union

She’s a listening

Get in Union

She birthed you

Get in Union

She’s a listening

Get in Union

She birthed you”

A theatrical stage with a backdrop featuring a white sculpture of Angels and a quote. A woman in white is performing a dance, and another person is seated on the left, possibly preparing music or scripts.