Scholar · Priestess · Dancer
“I move at the crossroads — where ritual meets research, and the body remembers what history tried to forget. Born of Caribbean soil and ocean memory, my work lives in dance, divination, and decolonial dreaming. As a scholar and choreographer, I craft sacred performance as healing, as resistance, as ancestral echo. My practice is prayer in motion. My calling is to remember, reimagine, and reclaim.”
Dr. Yanique Hume is a visionary artist and academic whose work bridges the realms of ritual, performance, and cultural heritage. With deep roots in the Caribbean, she brings a highly unique perspective to the intersection of spirituality, movement, and decolonial thought.
As a dancer/mover/explorer of African-diasporic and in particular Afro-Caribbean dance and movement vocabularies, the body becomes a central place to work through the silences and traumas of the past while also highlighting the incredible diversity of our identities. There are several layers of re-memory at stake: personal/individual, experiential, the meta-narrative of the collective re-embodiment as well as the memories re-exhibited by former incarnations that exist within the cellular repositories of the body.
Centering my practice within the realm of the sacred presents many possibilities for cultivating collectivities while allowing the individual to also blossom. The spiritual systems that have served communities across the Afro-Atlantic are inherently participatory. They call us to assemble, to enter a divine circle – a place of intimacy, safety and above all else, inclusivity.