ABOUT THE EVENT

Thank You

You Know - God and Goddess first, and - I bow! My deepest love and respect to my Ancestors, known and known in other ways. Deep profound love and gratitude to my entire family - my momma-da Goosie-Winada A. Love, my husband Antoine, our children and grands: Torkwase- Khem, Makeda-Lily, Ziporah, Kojo, the lil ones, Mia-Isis, Kaya, and Ali, for always showing unconditional love and being the present and future of me. Unconditional love to my brother Scott and his wife Marshanne Love. BIG LOVE to my UNDERcurrents family - Islah Abdul-Rahim, j. bouey, marco farroni leonardo, Anthony Fernandez, Jeremiah Kal’ab, Kayla Hamilton, Rhonda Haynes, Cyan Hunter, Lela Aisha Jones, Coni Lewis-Lopez, Laura Sofia Pérez, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Mandy Ringger, Makeda-Lily Love-Roney, Antoine Roney, Kojo Roney, Emanuel Ruffler, Buffy Sierra, Aidan Un, Diana Uribe, Zinda Williams, and Jessica “JZ” Ziegler. g1(host):lostatsea cast, you continue to be the anchor for this work, love and gratitude to Veleda Roehl, Orion Gordon & Iquo Essien. My deep ass soul-to-soul love to Nzingha Tyehemba and the entire Mama Nonkululeko Tribe, Benin Ford, and Fred Moten. Profound love and appreciation for Dionne Brand, Yvonne Connike (UK producer, 2026)

Yvonne Daniel, Saidiya Hartman, Stephanie Rolland, Christina Sharpe, Smitha Vishveshwara - we are sisters! My deep respect and love to

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the entire UBW family and CCI/CCI 2.0 cohorts and mentors. Liz Lerman and the Wicked Bodies cast - love y’all. Diving deep with love and gratitude to Paloma McGregor and the Dancing While Black family. Body-mind-soul love to Dr. Shante Hinson and Dr. Candice Fraser, Jerome Haferd, Abou Farman and Tavia Nyong’o. To my Bryn Mawr family: Justin McDaniel, Amy M. Radbill, & Kat Larson, I love you all. To my FSU & MANCC family: Carla Peterson, Ansje Burdick, Chris Cameron, Dr. James Frazer (Dean of Florida State University) Scott Lindenberg, Meredith Lyn, Clarence & Dr. Geri Seay, Olusegun Williams, Duzzie White and interns Ashlee Hubert and Chloe Mueller, I appreciate you all so much! WOW, we love you at Petronio Residency Center: Gino Grenek, Stephen Petronio, Cassandra Stern! Much appreciation to Barbara Bryan and Movement Research staff; Marya Warshaw and Jane-Cole Raftery, Kara

Gilmour, Vanessa Adato, Marlène Ramirez-Cancio, Lucia Scheckner, Abby Browde, and the entire BAX family. Gratitude to the LMCC staff and 2022-23 cohorts. Big hugs to my Wesleyan crew: Nicole Stanton, Ariana Molokwu, Rani Arbo, Jennifer Diglio, Jennifer Calienes, Jesse Nasta and Jumoke McDuffie-Thurmond, and loving shout out to my Embodying Anti-Racism Initiative cohorts. My profound thanks to Indira Goodwine-Josias, Cheri Opperman, Kristen Gregory, Ebony Noelle Golden and Germaine Ingram at NEFA; and Maya Quetzali Gonzalez Grace at the MAP Fund. Kiss ups to the sky and long held hugs to my Skeleton Architecture family. Always grateful to my sister-colleague Edisa Weeks, and my second home Queens College

CUNY Dept. of Drama, Theatre and Dance (also thanks for the acting blocks!). Thank you to Jamie Dowd and The Floor for your generative rehearsal space, and thank you to Amy Smith for your administrative support. For helping me to grow and be honest, respect and gratitude to my students at Queens College and The Eugene Lang College | The New School, and my mentees at New York Live Arts and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. To Patricia Cruz, Carl Hancock-Rux, Eric Oberstein, Rodney Bissessar, Shamar Hill, Maurice Ivy, Deirdre May, Eddy Perez, Shanté Skyers, and the Harlem Stage staff - without your support, generosity, and belief in my vision, this iteration of UNDERcurrents would not be possible. Alexis Pauline Gumbs - truly grateful for the ways you continue to teach us how to love and breathe through it all.

Gratitude for allowing me to speak your words from UNDROWNED: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Last and certainly not least, this work could not be imagined or realized without the continual sign posts from his loving direction to listen alongside and with the wake...here is to my father, sculptor, educator—Ed Love

Reading List

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Sadiya Hartman

• A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand

• In The Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

• Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

• Specters of the Atlantic by Ian Baucom

• Zong! by NorbeSe Philip

• The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King

• Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic LIfe in the African Diaspora by Kevin Dawson

• Undercommons by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

• Astonishment and Power: The Eyes of Understanding Kongo Minkisi/The Art of Renee Stoud by Wyatt MacGaffey, Michael D. Harris, and Sylvia H. Williams

• Nomenclature by Dionne Brand

• Art, Dialogue, Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture by Wole Soyinka

• Monuments to the Future: The Art of Ed Love by Robert Farris Thompson