…sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing
its loveliness…

~ Galway Kinnell

As an artist who lives in a culture dissimilar from the one in which I was raised, I am hyper-aware that much I was oriented on and knew as valuable growing up, is absent from my present environment. In the US, and in New York.

As a young woman my parents afforded me the chance to travel to the US for high school and to stay on for college. My parents didn’t agree with my every choice as a young woman, but they allowed me power over my own destiny, after a certain age.

However living in a culture with little indigenous influence, is a shift that takes a lifetime of adjustment. And I’ve honestly – not – very well.

Instead I remain hungry and attuned to any expression of it which happens along.

And in this choreographer, I recognized the reference to the ancient, ritual, and indigenous immediately. So I’ve looked him up, for more reconnection to what was revived in my spirit.

And been watching ever since, settling in.