Woof — what a year and some change.
Transitions, transatlantic moves, more transitions, and ongoing moving parts… and still, we continue.
I’m returning — to making, to teaching, to building BARNA ARTS with my ride-or-die.
Come visit us in BCN.
Practice your Spanish/ Catalan with me (I need it).
To more dancing and being together - 🫶🏻
There are no words to describe this moment.
My beautiful, funny, warm father passed yesterday after his battle with Alzheimer’s. I am so incredibly proud of this man. He loved with all his heart, not just his family, but his community, his company, and just about everyone he met.
I am now flooded with memories of him - how much he believed in me, pushed me, and encouraged me to chase after my dreams.
Holding him close to my heart forever. 🕊️🌅
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October 3-4 2024 @ 7:30pm
Shenandoah University
Panel talk afterwards with Dementia care workers and music therapists 🫶🏻
Echoes of a week ago. I am beyond grateful for the support of this work, for the messages afterwards, the continued conversations and the push from others to continue. Hoping to share this work again, to process and grieve together. @thresholdcollective_
Please be welcome to my premiere of ‘Survival in Ruins.’ A memoir that contemplates grief, parenthood, and slowness. Inspired by the birth of my second son, a father with Alzheimer’s, and mycelium networks.
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How does one submit to falling forever?
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October 15 @ 7pm and October 16th @ 8pm
MAAS Building
PWYC tickets at the door
summer dump // pause … heading off Instagram for a bit. I’ll be back soonish to blissfully post about my solo in October with
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If you want to know what I’m up to, let me know… newsletter in progress. (thanks @reallygoodatmath for the push). 🫶🏻🦋
It will be a week tomorrow since transitioning my best friend to a memory care unit. I don’t have many words but just so much love, grief and tenderness for this moment. This is us, a few days before moving him at our favorite hiking place. This overlook will always remind me of him: expansive and beautiful.
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I keep reading this sentence from @alokvmenon : ‘I figure this is what it means to grow up: to become aware of the gross mechanics of matter reassembling itself inside of you.’ Reassembling feels like the right word for now, inside and out. 💫🪢💗💔 #alzheimerssucks
I am overstimulated. I am shattering into tiny pieces daily. I am here in the studio, ready to move, but can only lie on the floor to breathe. I am so tired of moving. I am a mother and an artist and these two pieces of me coexist in the most loving and violent ways - slapping at each other, holding on to each other, screaming at each other, loving on one another, trying to do and be all the things at once only to realize that there is no balance. I swear I am going to make it onto that marley floor today. But fuck all the emails I should reply to and this clock ticking next to me telling me when to pick up the kids and walk out this door.
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How do we stop holding on and submit to falling?
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…i’m not sure but i’m moving slowly.
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SURVIVAL IN RUINS (work-in-progress sharing September 12th, @MAAS )
Portrait of a gal who just said YES to a MFA. .
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a lot is shifting in the world, sometimes with so much movement happening some clarity and light can be seen. Cheers to starting a new chapter.
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#phillydance #uarts #mfaprogram #cantgiveitup #practicingperformance
