Joanne Spies

2024: 100 thousand praises

Hu Ray is a gratitude dance I wrote that praises our body parts. It’s played as a warmup in every online moving sound session I lead, and every memory care and dementia unit where I work bringing music and movement.

In the animation I was able to praise and honor my ancestors using the clay ‘Speak/No Speak’ people.

The hundred praises are woven into new relationships with those gone before, making them ever-present.