To dance is to remember. To move is to summon. To grieve is to heal.

This workshop is an offering—a call to presence, a ritual of embodiment, a space where the living and the dead commune through breath, rhythm, and motion. Rooted in the funerary dances of the Caribbean, Wake-Work explores the body as a vessel of memory, a site where grief and transcendence intertwine, where the echoes of the Middle Passage still reverberate through flesh and spirit. Inspired by  two solo choreographic works—Zong: A Call to Remember (2018), created in collaboration with poet and literary scholar NourbeSe Philips, and For Those Among Us Who Inherited Sacrifice: A Response (2024), developed with multidisciplinary artist and scholar Gina Athen Ulysse—this workshop seeks to embody the lived histories of transatlantic trauma while fostering reparative healing.