Bonus Track - Florinda Bryant
Who Yo People Is
Florinda is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator that I’ve been art-family with since 1998. Here she talks about tending not only to her art, and her communities, but to her own mental, physical, spiritual health. A Texas gurl who calls Austin home, Florinda has worked with Salvage Vanguard Theater, the Rude Mechs, the Vortex, Paper Chairs, Theater en Bloc and Teatro Vivo in Austin, TX and the Ensemble Theater in Houston.
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Episode 36 - Mankwe Ndosi
Who Yo People Is
Mankwe Ndosi says her people are “fierce makers, re-workers, healers and those the push themselves to make in the uncomfortable places/and populate the uneasy textures and terrains…(they are) connectors who are willing to be compassionately uncomfortable...”
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Episode 35 - Renita Martin
Who Yo People Is
In addition to writing, performing, publishing and producing - Renita is founder of Rhythm Visions Production Company whose mission is to advance social and economic development in our communities through the creation and promotion of world-class art. More at: http://www.whoyopeopleis.com/season-3
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Episode 34 - Aimee K. Bryant
Who Yo People Is
Aimee says "take a leap of faith - move towards what you want, what feels good - even if it is scary.”
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Episode 33 - Sonja Parks
Who Yo People Is
Making certain that the “entire artist” is taken care of and respected.
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Episode 32 - Stacey Karen Robinson
Who Yo People Is
Stacey Karen Robinson "stewarding what is coming through".
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Announcing Season 3
Who Yo People Is
Season 3 of "Who Yo People Is" will be dropping soonsoon...check out more at: https://www.whoyopeopleis.com/season-3
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Episode 31 - End of Season 2/Honoring Diane Rodriguez
Who Yo People Is
Today we honor Diane Rodriguez. Diane transitioned on 4/10/20. May all the Love Beauty & Blessings that she so generously gave the world/carry her in Light with Love. Listen to episode 18/and receive her wisdom/and Glory.
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Episode 30 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Who Yo People Is
An academic guided by intellectual practices inspired by Black liberation and Love, Alexis is a 2020-21 National Humanities Center Fellow. She says she is a Marine Mammal Apprentice...one who is carrying on blood line traditions of listening to whales. Alexis says, "one foot in the water one foot in the sand is where I hear the best."
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Episode 29 - Sangodare
Who Yo People Is
Sangodare creates media and art for healing and transformation. Activating energy and vibrational fields to open space for people to be more of who they are, Sangodare makes connections between the vocality of Black preaching styles, and Ifa oriki traditions and tonalities.
info_outlineAlicia Bauman-Morales is an Oakland born Boricua tomboi, a queer woman, a dancer/organizer/performer/trouble maker. During our conversation Alicia brings the wealth of her Ancestry forward by calling the names of many in her blood lineage as she speaks of coming from fantastical storytellers, people committed to doing things on their own terms. Alicia shares a bit about her piece: huracán: storm medicine - a personal dance story, living altar and town hall about destruction, translation, and the transformative power of storms. And she names some of her influences, as she shares her Journey of learning how to nurture/and be in her body.
Alicia's performance practice is shaped by Oakland turf dance (she grew up in Oakland and her first studio was the sidewalk), tomboy physicality, house dance, martial arts, kitchen and backyard salsa, altar building, western modern forms and, recently, Step. She is or has been a proud collaborator/performer with Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, NWA Project, Renegade Performance Group, MBDance, Brown Girls Burlesque, Roots and River Productions and PISO Proyecto, and has shown work in four of the five boroughs of New York and Puerto Rico. She is a proud organizer with ACRE, Artists Co-Creating Real Equity.
Regarding organizing in solidarity with people in Puerto Rico right Alicia suggests, "direct support of our people in PR via donations of money and supplies, and by writing notes...and putting political pressure on politicians in the U.S" and check out: Colectivo Ilé https://colectivo-ile.org, a women's collective doing racial justice work and community sustainability through women's entrepreneurship.
During our conversation Alicia names some of her teachers and influences/including:
Amara Tabor-Smith http://www.deepwatersdance.com
Arthur Aviles http://www.baadbronx.org/arthur-aviles-typical-theater.html
jumatatu m. poe https://www.jumatatu.org
Luisah Teish https://www.yeyeluisahteish.com
Marc Bamuthi Joseph https://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/B305518
More about Alicia at:
https://www.whoyopeopleis.com/season-2