We are dancing all the time…
These are pieces of movement constellations from the Dancing Mother creations. Featured in each share are videos of dance practices and performances, screen stills and archival photos, dance stories, short films, and moving picture reels of Mother Mother’s soft-time performances, space activations in public spaces, and select writings about her performance work.
Elemental
Elemental is an experimental, soft-time, performance installation that inhabits pockets of possibility for a multitudinous mothering entity who is re/discovering the raw movements of life and her body soon after giving birth to her 5th child. Sourcing fragments of time, and attached to or in close physical proximity of one or more children at all times, the dancing mother activates everyday spaces as transient laboratories where she can dance, dream, and feel into the expansiveness of a world that will one day be big enough, and soft enough, to make space for all of her.
Snacktime Booty
Mother Mother dances to one of her favorite go-go anthems of all time while hungry munchkins demand that her dance joy not interrupt the distribution of their snacks. Healing from a protostar birth, Mother Mother intentionally documents the unseen labors of her belly and bodyscape, as she makes peace with the life that is no longer growing there.
Mother Mother’s 10th Priestessaversary
On the 10th anniversary of beginning her fertility priestess initiation, Mother Mother dances a celebration dance with her daughter Jubilee, the first baby born during her initiation season. Together mother and daughter experiment with solo-bodied and partnered movements. They play in the space, moving between extremes of being very close and spreading out to fill up the vast space. The movements are both a celebration of Mother Mother’s 10 years of being on this path, and also a space of discovery and story sharing as she unpacks the meaning of this day with her daughter.
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Roof Terrace Ringshout
Once upon a time, in Mother Mother’s favorite place to dance in Washington, DC, on the Roof Terrace of the People’s Art Center, she dances a ringshout while her family plays and moves all around her. A mother of 3 at the time, she is two years into her fertility priestess initiation, and celebrating one year since giving birth to her daughter Jubilee, her first initiation baby.
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Oh Freedom
Mother Mother sings Mother Wah—’s song, Oh Freedom, and dances inside the long labors of Mother Wah—’s dreaming. Mother Wah— is one of Mother Mother’s ancestral mothers who is in bondage while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the 18th century. Heart-sickened over the separation from her older children when they were kidnapped from the riverside, Mother Wah— defiantly clings to a thread of hope.
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BOOTYMA MAKES THE SUN RISE
In BootyMa Makes the Sun Rise, Mother Mother tells the story of how BootyMa accidentally shifts the rhythms of night and day for the whole Earth with her dancing booty.
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Mother in Labor riNGshout Rehearsal
Six moons along with her 5th baby, Mother Mother practices breathing and staying open when birthing time comes. She dances a long, slow ringshout and activates expanded breath pathways and movement circuits that support deepening communions and presence with her growing starseed. As Mother Mother dances, she visualizes their future birthing moments and learns how to listen to the messages coming through the movements.
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Love Signal
Inspired by the Ringshout Love Consciousness acorn sermon, this is a movement practice where we create a ringshout in our body that radiates a powerful love frequency. This is an experimental practice portal and Mother Mother invites curious collaborators to explore and add to the discovery with their stories and movements.
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Every Spin Is Its Own Medicine
Recorded in the midnight hours, moments after completing a spins practice, Mother Mother invites us to discover how making tiny spins and circular movements in our bodies opens pathways for healing, expansion, and regeneration. Especially when we are feeling heavy with grief, frustration, anxiety, or heartache, activating a spins practice energizes the blood, stimulates a consciousness of new possibilities, and connects us to the same spin intelligence that powers our planet, moon, sun, and galaxy.
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Photo by Colin A. Danville
Cosmic Organ
Mother Mother introduces her foundational understanding of all movement, that the breath is the first dance. She invites creators to feel into the awakenings stirred when imagining that when we dance we are breathing for the universe.
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Possibility is round
Possibility Is Round is a 3-stage progression that invites the embodied experimentation and exploration of round movements in the body’s rotations, through forms and shapes made by the body, and through circular and round patterns the dancing body discovers in the space.
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In this now moment
In This Now Moment is a one-hour, oral movement practice with Mother Mother that invites us to consider where gravity, weight, and density have gathered in the body. Through a series of gentle prompts, dancers discover a softening and a lightening of energies.
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Awaken, Activate, Amplify
The ringshout is a movement practice that invites you to evolve how you engage your body in the realization of your dreams. To optimize your experience in the ringshout, Mother Mother encourages you to be thoroughly warmed up, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually before going into your ringshout practice. There are many ways to warm-up, and Mother Mother offers the 3-part Awaken, Activate, Amplify methodology specifically for warming up for the ringshout.
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