first part of the triad: homemakin in the church
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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 herstory of my mother, Pauline Anderson, establishing her as a practitioner of homemakin, chronicling her migration from Jamaica, West Indies to the United States, 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.
A brief history of liturgical dance with dance presented in congregations beginning in the late 80s, its significance in the development of modern concert dance as well as its fringe status.
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For Black women in the church liturgical dance is a site of homemakin.
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With performative elements in addition to spiritual and thematic significance, liturgical dance straddles the church and the stage.
