The Open Studio series is a part of a larger body of work that Mother Mother is dreaming into and gathering materials for called Mother Brings Herself Back To Life. The Open Studio is an experiment in sharing elements of the revival movements that have come to Mother Mother in her private, nighttime dance communions with other dancing mothers in public and virtual community spaces. In addition to developing content for the future soft-time performance installation Mother Brings Herself Back to Life, the Open Studio series gives Mother Mother practice in producing soft-time performances that have a hybrid collaborative-time (face to face) component as well. Mother Mother is deeply fascinated by how we can stretch, split, and fracture time. How can this one moment be realized as many moments? 

Take me to the water
Take me to the water
Take me to the water
To be revived

I hear the mothers calling
I hear the mothers calling
I hear the mothers calling
They know my name…

Hours before I was going to begin the Open Studio, my mother called to tell me my grandmother had transitioned. I thought about postponing but I felt my grandmother’s spirit telling me to go ahead and dance. It was a holy time dancing into the sunset. I heard the mothers encouraging me to rejoice, to “make a joyful noise!” And so I did…