My praxis is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar practice situated at the intersection of dance, cultural anthropology, education, and technology. Through choreographic research, theoretical frameworks, pedagogical design, and ethical technology protocols, my work investigates how embodied cultural knowledge—particularly within the African diaspora—is created, transmitted, preserved, and translated across artistic, educational, and digital systems.
I develop original research pillars and a supporting language system to resist flattening, extraction, and erasure while centering Black cultural agency, specificity, and continuity across time, space, and media. My praxis moves fluidly between performance and scholarship, studio and classroom, archive and algorithm—treating the body as a site of intelligence, memory, and world-making.
Core Research Pillars of My Praxis
Each pillar functions as a distinct research and creative focus, while remaining in active conversation with the others through a shared language system I developed which includes Ethnodanceology, Technosomatics, Annotated Embodiment, Embodied Annotation, and Ethno-Somatic User Experience Design.
Black Maternal Sovereignty
Black Maternal Sovereignty is a womanist theoretical framework I developed to understand Black motherhood as an embodied, relational, and generative form of agency—expressed through creativity, care, partnership, and world-making within Black family life.
Ethnodanceology + Ethnogenetic Embodiment
Ethnodanceology is a framework I coined in 2007 to study and teach dance within its full cultural context, treating movement as embodied history and knowledge—particularly within the African diaspora.
HBCU Dance Studies + Black Visuality
Dissertation 2005, 2026
This pillar is my PhD work I began in 2005 that investigates how social media ecosystems mediate Black visuality, representation, and perception—particularly within HBCU dance programs and educational environments.
Embodied Cultural Translation (Dance, Technology, AI and Ethics)
Embodied Cultural Translation is a framework I developed to examine how embodied cultural knowledge—especially African diasporic movement—is translated into technological eco-systems and the ethical responsibilities that govern that translation.
