Greets and Beats...
I consider myself an Urban Nomad.I am a performer travelling and touring professionally on the Road with a show called STOMP. This Show is changing my Life. Amidst the Cacaphony and delicate subtleties of this production, I am relearning myself and the things that have come along with me, and it amazes me that I safely and successfully been on the road almost five years. I am constantly embracing my title as an artist,and am fortunate to be making a very comfortable, sound and creative Living on the Road as a Black Woman while Looking at the Everyday via My Race, Class, my Sexuality and my Delightfully Ambivalent Gender.
I never have any idea what the Road will bring me. I am constantly amazed by my interactions and processes that emerge; I have acquired an Accidental Family that is constantly growing, changing, evolving and bringing me somewhere inside and outside of myself with every passing day, and new city that I get to.
I am inspired by the possibility of individuals who I know nothing about knowing something about me...
My personal roots run strong and solid as a naturalized citizen of the US from Brixton,in London, England. I am Afro-Carribean as my parents are Antiguan and Nigerian. I am Yoruba by Genetic Default ;P and I have yet to learn the language. I was immersed in US culture abruptly upon landing in NYC in the Bronx, for about 3 months. Most memories of me, my brother, my grandmother and my mom growing up after age 11 revolve around Stratford, CT., Storrs, CT for college; Hartford, CT for my post collegiate, artistic and professional development and back to base in Stratford, CT as I become more comfortable with the lesson the Road Teaches me. She is constantly showing me and unrevealing amazing things: I've found a Voice, Songwriting, and I've met and performed with some amazing and creative artistic innovators, and the Accidental Family I continue to live with still makes me apply, grow, reach, self-inspect and relearn. As a Black Female Artist - single, sober and celibate with joy in gender performance, I suppose I am subconsciously yet creatively undergoing my own discipline, imposing and becoming part of an Urban Order of sorts, as I attempt to tap into my creative potential explore my journey with inspiration and focus.
As I travel forward - I can now peacefully glance backwards every so often and recollect my childhood leading up to my past relationships, and endeavors and I look ahead Now; I take time to rediscover myself via self granted permission to enjoy, relish, permit myself to try and explore so many things. The most meaningful are continuing my education online, catching up and exploring Music, Style and Pop Culture that I never felt immersed in as a child; artfully chronicling my Life on and off the Road (Read more in depth details about my adventures in Blogumentary)., Creating a one woman show, recording an EP, and recently - exploring and revisiting the arts & activist roots that propelled me into my professional theater career, and I am further inspired to do so, especially with the swearing in of of a Black Man as our 44th President:Barrack Obama
I can't wait to see what the Road brings my way. She has been so good to me...
Casensitive boi