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    • Revivals of Blackness | 2021 | FILM & VIRTUAL CEREMONY
    • Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project | 2017-2019 | Curation
    • ...the bottom up...Catching Souls as a part of Grounds that Shout curated by Reggie Wilson | 2019 | STAGE & EXHIBITION
    • Plight Release and the Diasporic Body : Jesus & Egun | 2016
    • Plight Release and the Diasporic Body: Everyday Saturday | 2017
    • Native Portals: Lynching & Love | 2012
    • Native Portals: Release, Mourning Clearing | 2016
    • Native Portals: Continuum of Action (The Witness) | 2015
    • Original Spaces | 2017
    • Dancing for Justice Philadelphia | 2014-2015
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​Native Portals: Release, Mourning Clearing | 2016

In the Process: The Making of Native Portals from Lela Aisha Jones on Vimeo.

IJ - Native Portals from aidan un on Vimeo.

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 Clearing was 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.
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  • Home
    • Revivals of Blackness | 2021 | FILM & VIRTUAL CEREMONY
    • Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project | 2017-2019 | Curation
    • ...the bottom up...Catching Souls as a part of Grounds that Shout curated by Reggie Wilson | 2019 | STAGE & EXHIBITION
    • Plight Release and the Diasporic Body : Jesus & Egun | 2016
    • Plight Release and the Diasporic Body: Everyday Saturday | 2017
    • Native Portals: Lynching & Love | 2012
    • Native Portals: Release, Mourning Clearing | 2016
    • Native Portals: Continuum of Action (The Witness) | 2015
    • Original Spaces | 2017
    • Dancing for Justice Philadelphia | 2014-2015
  • About
    • Founder
    • FlyGround Folks
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