SHE IS MY SISTER
The burning times were not about witches, but about women who refused to be silenced.
SHE IS MY SISTER is an interdisciplinary exploration of the power and persecution of female wisdom keepers and traditional healers. It is a doorway into ancestral memory and a reclaiming of buried stories. Movement, spoken word, and original live music intertwine to contemplate the severing of colonial society’s connection to the sacred feminine, while illuminating a path to restore the teachings of the divine mother, sisterhood, and communion with the earth.
This work was initially discovered through a dream where I witnessed a woman being burned alive for her wisdom and nonconformity. Crying out in protest, I too was condemned. After discussing this experience with other women, I realized I was not alone. I began to hear how many of us have moments where, in dreams or visions, we find ourselves back in that fire.
The trauma created through the repression of feminine wisdom has imprinted into the collective consciousness, passing from generation to generation, sowing societal imbalance, and harming people of all genders. With this work I seek to trace the echo of that trauma across lifetimes, and honor the ways it lives in all of us.
This work seeks to open a portal to witness the past while calling forth a channel to create the future. A future where feminine wisdom is honored alongside the masculine, and the sacred feminine within all of us is restored.
SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION
SHE IS MY SISTER :
is currently in development.
WE ARE SEEKING:
collaborators, funders, and presenting partners to help bring this work to its full scale and share it with audiences across the U.S. and Europe.
SHE IS MY SISTER:
has been showcased in work-in-progress showings at The Center for Provocative Thought (Effie House, Los Angeles) and in Brooklyn, New York, with ongoing rehearsals and creative development at Pieters Performance Space.
