Ypsilanti Freighthouse
Reconnecting Currents: A Healing at the Huron
with Marsae Lynette
In this participatory public event, Marsae Lynette presents an evening of film, performance, and community.
This interactive event invites the local community to reconnect with freshwater sources such as the Huron River, as well as one another through reflection, restoration, and jubilation. Audience members are invited to both witness and engage in rituals of reconnection.
Kresge Gilda Award Recipient Marsae Lynette is a dancer, educator, and ethnochoreologist whose research explores the ecological interdependence of women of the African diaspora and freshwater sources through the lens of embodied intelligence and spirituality.
The evening’s journey includes:
– Opening ceremony and intention-setting
– 30-minute film viewing
– Dance performance
– Sunset processional to the Huron River and return to the Freighthouse to conclude
The artist invites audience members to dress in all-white attire.
This performance is a “Pay What You Wish” event. That means that you can decide how much you would like to pay to attend. In most venues, an event like this would cost around $15-25 per person. Please enter the price you would like to pay per ticket, and the number of tickets you wish to reserve.
Marsae Lynette is a dancer, educator, and self-proclaimed ethnochoreologist. She studied with the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York and later received her BFA from Marygrove College. While attending Marygrove, she received the coveted “Outstanding Dancer of the Year Award,” an honor presented annually to a student who shows technical proficiency, leadership, commitment, and academic achievement.
Lynette has taught dance throughout Michigan and held the position of assistant director at Studio Detroit Dance Center. She studies and teaches several techniques including ballet, Horton, Dunham, contemporary, and tap. Mitchell is the lead choreographer, co-producer, and artistic director of My Hair, My Story, My Glory, an artistic narrative on the history and culture of hair expressed through poetry, music, and dance. Mitchell and co-producer Kristina Beaty believe that it is an artist’s responsibility to empower, enlighten, engage, and entertain.
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