Main example of homemakin in the church

A brief her story of my mother, Pauline Anderson, establishing her as a practitioner of homemakin, chronicling her migration from Jamaica to the West Indies, her work as a dance educator and a trailblazing liturgical dance leader in the DMV, one of the first to establish a ministry and school.

homemakin in the church

  • My childhood basement was a classroom, a bar, a dance hall and a dance studio; a site of homemakin that served as the foundation for this project.

  • For Black women in the church liturgical dance is a site of homemakin; a space of otherwise time (Fleming) where women and girls can be leaders, preachers, healers and experts in an otherwise patriarchal space that is “church.”

  • Liturgical dance straddles the church and the stage.