Spirit Dance Adornments: May 2010

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Aché: Dancing with Afro-Cuban Folklore Master Juan Carlos Blanco a Docum...

Jewelry design and construction makes my spirit dance, but this documentary clip of Master drummer and Afro-Cuban Folklorico dancer Juan Carlos Blanco by filmmaker Lili Bernard bring a whole 'nother meaning to spirit dance.

Rings

A few one-of-a-kind original rings. The music is "Breath" from The Chronicles Project," by BZo Cavanass, my sister Sharon Terry's life partner. See and listen to more "Chronicles Project" at http://www.facebook.com/THE-CHRONICLES-PROJECT.

Talking Adornments

When your spirit speaks let it use the Adinkra language of the Akan people of West Africa. The Adinkra language is an ancient symbol system, today it is primarily found in Ghana. At Spirit Dance we have added a Diaspora element to the interpretation of the language. When creating our adornments we conceptualize each piece considering two methods of interpreting the symbolic representation of the Adinkra language. First, we employ the ideal of “Sankofa.” Like the mythical bird flying forward while looking back, we endeavor to fearlessly remember the siprit of the past while employing craft techniques of different times and different lands where the children of Africa have traveled and settled.