nzoCALIFA - Kalunga Crossings: Mama Djaara - Dancestor
"Water Runs Through It" conceived by New Orleans native, Leslie Zakiya Cornish - whose Dance sojourn of African American identity steeped in the historical backdrop of the Black Civil Rights movement and African Liberation cultivated through International Ambassadorship by premiere African Ballet Companies of the times -- the catalyst in further establishing a long-time kinship exchange and presence of African Dance and Drum Communities in the United States. The real gift of this piece as part of her M.F.A. Thesis concert at Temple University, reveals a Mother-daughter Ancestral cycle story influenced by "her intimate connection to the radical impact of Hurricane Katrina, and the invocation of two bodies of water inherently connected to her ancestral roots - the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean." The featured soloist in the center is Zakiya's Mother a celebrated Dance Elder and Medium - Mama Djaara. "Water Runs Through It: Rogation...