Reconnecting Currents: Women of the Rivers

Reconnecting Currents: Women of the Rivers (Detroit, 2022)
2 hour concert, festival,
10 minute short film titled Reconnecting Currents: Femme Rivers,
45 minute Documentary titled Reconnecting Currents: Cuba to Detroit
Produced, written, choreographed, edited by Marsae Lynette
Co-producer, co-editor Elisandra M. Rosario
Sponsored by the Detroit Yacht Club, the University of Michigan (UofM) Department of Dance, UofM Center for World Performance Studies
Featuring: Cici Benn, Oiya Etays, Celia Benvenutti, Njeri Rutherford, Brooke Taylor, Nila Miller, Tiffany Mitchell, Anwar Uhuru
Wisdom: Ponca Matriarch Casey Camp-Horinek
Music: Creative Passion by Beautiful Chorus, Yeye O Aremi by the London Lucumi Choir, River by Ibeyi, Oshun Chant by Women of the Calabash, Yeye O sung by the cast and audience members
Filmed by Zach McCullough, Tony Manning, and Elisandra Rosario
Photos by Tony Manning and Kirk Donaldson

Reconnecting Currents: Women of the Rivers explores the brown feminine mind, body, and spirit’s inherent connection to fresh water sources which consequently connects the people of the African Diaspora to one another.