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VERTEX - at Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, New York | October 5th, 2025.

"It's been a thrill inviting you into VERTEX. Think of it as a playground for your creative spirit: a place to sweat a little, laugh a lot, and surprise yourself with what you can make alongside others."

Check out more about this session created by Star Mitchell, here.

#nyc #brooklyn #movement #meditation #community #healing #gather #body #love #decolonize

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Ph. Gilles Bensimon

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Naomi Osaka at Australia Open

photographed by Rachel Bach (2026)

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Sister Sledge rehearsing for Zaire '74 in Kinshasa

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Walls / Louisiana Street, Buffalo, New York.

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Johnny Chicano (Enrique Gómez Vadillo, 1981)

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Christa Peters - Blouse by Ronnie Stirling for Stirling Cooper (Honey 1971)

There’s Something In Her Blood - OUTSIGHT Festival at Dorothy Strelsin Garden | New York, New York | August 31st 2025

An abstract improvisational movement piece on liberation and the human’s relentless journey in search of it.

“In the last days, I have come to understand on a deeper level just how much patriarchy is at the crux of much of our discomfort. It harbors so much against us as individuals and as a community. It impedes our ability to give compassion and take care when it is most vital to our ecosystem as interconnected humans and beings on this planet? I want to thank all the people within my ecosystem who choose to never give up liberation. To those who choose to delineate from hatred. To all the people in the world seeking freedom, it is paramount for our survival and thriving that you also seek love…and that starts from loving you. Thank you to my mother, my grandmothers, my aunts, my sisters, teachers, priestesses, godmothers, and the matrilineal legacies before me that carried the presence of my soul in their hearts and spirits in the past so I could have vision and carry our legacy of freedom ahead into the future.”

I wrote the above when I presented it for the first time at Ars Nova. It came to me like some download from the divine. It feels important to say these words out loud and share them again as I continue to develop this piece and the realm around it.

Big thank you to @dereksrisaranard for capturing these beautiful images, to my mom for the legacy garb, to Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 for claiming its independence on this day (August 31st), to @studiobirdhaus for asking me to be a part of this magnificent line up, to @leimayfoundation for always bringing art to the people, to @leaf.mold for being an absolute gem and production maven, to @nyrp for bringing the people back to the earth, to my friends who pulled up to witness me in this moment and share their care, and to Scott for letting us roam in his garden full of peaches and dreams and love.

xx [Watch a snippet here] xx