first part of the triad: homemakin in the church

1

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.

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 Black women to establish a liturgical dance ministry in 1996.

2

For Black women in the church liturgical dance is a site of homemakin; a space of otherwise time (Fleming).

3

Liturgical dance straddles the church and the stage.