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A full weekend of capoeira was worth a few broken nails. Thanks for all the rodas and happy birthday to Grão Mestre Joao Grande. We’re so grateful to have this 90+ living ancestor of capoeira among us. 🕊🙏🏾💜🤸🏾♀️🎶 #capoeira #capoeiraangola #capoeirista #roda #capoeiralife #angola #brazil #blackculture #africanculture #martialarts #africandance #africanmusic #brazilianculture #newyork #brooklyn
Dear Friends:
May your holiday mug overflow with boisterous laughter, vibrant health, and plentiful opportunities to give and receive. As the Yule fires burn, may we reflect on the past year by celebrating our triumphs (large and small); honoring what we learned from our challenges; and dreaming our intentions for the year to come.
Looking ahead, I'm excited to kick off 2023 with the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School for their Theater of Change course. Theater of Change gathers Broadway-caliber creators, law experts, community leaders, and social justice advocates in order to leverage the arts in the construction of just policy. Equally if not more exciting are my residencies at Hedgebrook and Ma's House happening later in the year.
If you wish, you may still make The Kandake Dance Theatre for Social Change a part of your 2022 tax-deductible donations at www.TheKandake.com
May you reap all the riches of the heart in the new year!
xox ~ O
RECENT HONORS:
Hedgebrook - Resident Writer (2023)
Ma's House w/ Shinnecock Nation - Resident Artist (2023)
Sewanee Writers' Conference - Fellowship (2022)
Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights' Conference - Semi-Finalist (2022)
Dramatic Question Theatre - Classics in Color (2022)
Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow - Resident Writer (2022)
90th Annual Writers' Digest International Competition - 1st Place Scriptwriting (2021)
#writer #artist #changemaker #playwright #blackwriters #justice #donate #taxdeductible #residency #blackwriter #wintersolstice #happyholidays #yule #newyear #2023 #whatsupnext #dancer #dancersoftiktok #writersoftiktok #blackplaywright #womenplaywrights #prisonjustice #prisonabolition #longestnight #gratitude #writersresidency #artistresidency #endofyeardonation #endofyear
May your holiday mug overflow with boisterous laughter, vibrant health, and plentiful opportunities to give and receive. As the Yule fires burn, may we reflect on the past year by celebrating our triumphs (large and small); honoring what we learned from our challenges; and dreaming our intentions for the year to come.
Looking ahead, I'm excited to kick off 2023 with the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School for their Theater of Change course. Theater of Change gathers Broadway-caliber creators, law experts, community leaders, and social justice advocates in order to leverage the arts in the construction of just policy. Equally if not more exciting are my residencies at Hedgebrook and Ma's House happening later in the year.
If you wish, you may still make The Kandake Dance Theatre for Social Change a part of your 2022 tax-deductible donations at www.TheKandake.com
May you reap all the riches of the heart in the new year!
xox ~ O
RECENT HONORS:
Hedgebrook - Resident Writer (2023)
Ma's House w/ Shinnecock Nation - Resident Artist (2023)
Sewanee Writers' Conference - Fellowship (2022)
Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights' Conference - Semi-Finalist (2022)
Dramatic Question Theatre - Classics in Color (2022)
Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow - Resident Writer (2022)
90th Annual Writers' Digest International Competition - 1st Place Scriptwriting (2021)
#writer #artist #changemaker #playwright #blackwriters #justice #donate #taxdeductible #residency #blackwriter #wintersolstice #happyholidays #yule #newyear #2023 #whatsupnext #dancer #dancersoftiktok #writersoftiktok #blackplaywright #womenplaywrights #prisonjustice #prisonabolition #longestnight #gratitude #writersresidency #artistresidency #endofyeardonation #endofyear
Happy December! Lacking something decidedly more pagan, here’s another basic bitch Xmas song in case you aren’t sick of them yet. Hoping to get Scarborough Faire by the end of the year! #firstnoel #xmassong #christmassong #december #holiday #harp #beginnerharp #doublestrungharp #yule #wintersolstice
Drum Lesson # 8: I spend the last few minutes of drum classes trying to figure out the main drum parts from cool songs. Today I tried “Double Dare” by Bauhaus.
One of my goals is to get “Bombs Over Baghdad” by OutKast. So far, I got a slowed down version of the bass drum and snare. 🥁🔥 #drumming #drummer #drummergirl #drumset #drumkit #bauhaus #outkast
One of my goals is to get “Bombs Over Baghdad” by OutKast. So far, I got a slowed down version of the bass drum and snare. 🥁🔥 #drumming #drummer #drummergirl #drumset #drumkit #bauhaus #outkast
“Do Re Mi” part 2. Playing slowly so I can mess around with different accompaniments on the left side. Scrapped the fingering halfway through to keep the timing, will go back and “fix” it later. 🎶 #beginner #beginnerharp #doublestrungharp #harp #harps #doremi #bothsidesnow #newhobby #newhobbies #harpist
Still working on proper finger technique or whatever but I just wanted to get the notes for now. Capoeira’s call and response is good for playing both sides of the double-strung harp! #parana #capoeira #capoeiramusic #capoeirista #beginnerharp #doublestrungharp #harp #bothsidesnow #newbie #newhobby #harpplayer #harpist #lapharp #harpmusic #capoeiraangola
