Native Portals, thus far, is a tetralogy or quadrilogy and a multi-episodic movement performance series that includes Lynching & Love (2012), Release Mourning Clearing (2016), Continuum of Action [The Witness Spectrum] (2016), and Continuum of Action [The Witness] (2015, 2017). These works have been renewed and overlaid in many versions through live performance and film.
Native Portals: Release Mourning Clearingwas a artistic embodied reflection upon witnessing the aftermath of the most recent killings of black people that is now very present in terrifying ways—smothering hope and evoking anger. The work conjures and translates, through dance, text, soundscapes, and live music, a tapestry of ritual practices rising from black diasporic experiences of activism, witnessing, reconciliation, and restoration.