WOMANIFESTO (2016)
A.I.R. Dance Conference: Miami Dade College-Kendall Campus
A work that challenges stereotypes.
Bahamian Warrior Woman Series
2025: Hip Hip Hooray: Erotic Performance in T(h)ree: Public Humanities Lab; iWitness; FIU/MMC
The third solo in the Warrior Woman Series. Hip Hip Horray: Erotic Performance in T(h)ree challenges vulgarity and respectability debates as it relates to social, political, and gendered codes and infractions through stylized movement phrases, satire, fashion, poetry, and pulsing riddims of the Caribbean.
Photographer: Alon Skuy
The third solo in the Warrior Woman Series. Hip Hip Horray: Erotic Performance in T(h)ree challenges vulgarity and respectability debates as it relates to social, political, and gendered codes and infractions through stylized movement phrases, satire, fashion, poetry, and pulsing riddims of the Caribbean.
Photographer: Alon Skuy
2022: CariDad: Bahamian Warrior Woman
"Caridad", the first solo in the series is a 20-minute solo work that explores transnationalism, African spirituality, Caribbean identity, and erotic performance[1]. Using Katherine Dunham’s “repositories of memory” and “research to performance method,” the author brings elements of Junkanoo to the concert stage. “CariDad 2022” was created for Black History Month in conjunction with an art exhibition at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Fl and is inspired by “Mothership” by Pepe Mar, illustrating the intricate color palate, assemblage, and attention to detail by the artist as well as Bahamian Junkanoo performance and aesthetics. Performer and choreographer A’Keitha Carey engages with biomythography, exploring the mythological Bahamian Warrior Woman Caridad, the daughter of the river goddess Oshun, goddaughter of Ogun, and protected under the Damballah loa.
Photographer: Alexandra Gelbard
[1] A term that the author is expounding on in her dissertation research which includes 10 elements: power, play, sensuality, sexuality, virtuosity, spirituality, autonomy, desire, the political, and freedom.
Photographer: Alexandra Gelbard
[1] A term that the author is expounding on in her dissertation research which includes 10 elements: power, play, sensuality, sexuality, virtuosity, spirituality, autonomy, desire, the political, and freedom.
