First, welcome if you have not made it to my  "good to meet you" page. Though I love creating as many questions as I answer, on the digital communication platform, that can be infuriating.  So, what was that you just read on my start page?

As a dance scholar who is also a conjurer, I am concerned with bursts of spirit that over time get labeled as purely, "aesthetic" or "mundane," or worse yet, as "superstitious."  I have an affinity for these moments, honing in on the vibrational traces of submerged practices/rites and then seek, through writing and performance, to readjust our perception so that we may not only appreciate the functionality, enjoy the beauty, or revel in the ugliness, but also utilize the energetic quality/potential to make better sense of our world.

Yup!  I sho nuff is a professor, but i can learn you with out ya even noticin'. All that said, I have a research project in play about walking, language, neighborhoods, memoryscapes, policy that defines "public" space and the laws that police it.  So one day I, after falling into the pot of my performance piece, Fish Tales, Rivers and Other Female Parts, I found myself trying to understand Mami Wata, a river deity who is also an ocean goddess and market maven--basically she likes to travel--and her sudden rise to the top of the African spiritual collective unconscious in the US.  She rides in front of ships, some say. Others claim that she lurks at confluences of dark and light rivers.  She is also the surprise spring bursting out of rock, growing strength as an eventual river.  She has so many names, that all she does is laugh at you as you try to call her back.  She is serpentine logic, but not the rainbow itself. 

Twisting and turning along her waterway, trying to understand Oya! (my head-ruling deity) as a type of Mami Wata, I slipped upon fountains, mainly, a question about them: why do we put them in places where we will only pass through?  What are we trying to re-member by placing H2O in an airport, a train station, in a park where the design shifts from one thing to another, in the middle of the street?!?  And so, know you know.  It is a fascination, that will become a show.  Fall further into the flow.