Salt in the Soil.
I am honored to share my latest work, Salt in the Soil.
Together, we’ve created something that feels like a healing for us, for the tradition, and for the audience who joins us.
📅 Saturday, August 2, 2025
📍 Eliza Howell Park, Detroit at Sidewalk Festival
🕝 2:30 PM
🎟️ Free & Open to the Public
Salt in the Soil features tap dance, sand dance, and live music inspired by Detroit’s jazz and sonic legacy. It is a prayer, a planting, and a public offering.
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In honor of National Tap Dance Day and the birthday of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, here is my short film from a forthcoming body of work:
Salt in the Soil.
The larger piece explores the dual nature of salt. How it preserves, heals, and adds flavor, but in excess, can damage the very ground we stand on. Like the soil, our stories carry memory. Some nourishing. Some heavy. The body becomes a vessel to process it all.
This is an invitation to reflect on what we’ve inherited, what we carry, and what we’re willing to lay down so something new can grow.
Set to Madlib’s reimagining of Bobby Hutcherson’s Montara, this offering is part of The Living Room Series, a site-responsive exploration of rhythm, land, and lineage.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Bojangles.
We can, because of you.
To learn more about his legacy, read more here.