Credits

Exhibition / archive prototype website, interviews, research, audio and video by
Deirdre Molloy (the author).

Portrait Credits

Lucky – YouTube video by Riverside Theatre, screenshot by author
Kako, Diane – photography by author
Ade Ola/Adam Pascall – photographer TBC, source YouTube
Bibiw – photographer TBC, source: Facebook public profile
Damon – photo by Bobby Bonsey
Brenda Jean – photographer TBC
Joyss – photo by Marina Achkasova, 2018 Desert Stomp

Space-time image credits 

From the top of the page, where not credited in situ.
Braids: photo montage based on the art of So Yoon Lym
Porcupine Quills (circle) –  photo by Drew Avery 2009.
Colourful textiles: Kente silk, Asante people, photo: British Museum
Circular thatch: photo by Robert Howard 2015.
Slideshow background: detail of Beautiful Mother mask credited in the slide: various tribes of Guinea, photo: Yale University Art Gallery
Slave ship: The Seraphic Marie of Nantes, by René Lhermitte 1770, Musee d’Histoire de Nantes.
Slave ship: The Brookes Slave Ship by Thomas Clarkson in 1787, published 1808, source: The British Library
Surviving/Continuum/Syncretisation: the author mapped rhythm names and flows, and European cultural influences onto a (base) map of 17-18thC slave trade by Chaliand et al 1995. Base map used with permission. Chaliand G, Rageau JP, Petit C (1995) The Slave Trade (17th-18th C) – in Mapping Globalization [online] Available: https://commons.princeton.edu/mg/the-slave-trade-17th-18th-centuries/ [accessed 11 Jan 2024].
Cakewalk c.1900 Photographs & Prints Division, Schombug Centre for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations – "an international dance craze," mocking colonial manners in Malone (1996) p.91
Rhythm Atlantic: the author mapped rhythms onto a stock image from Vecteezy

North America page

Ring Shout : DecodeNoir

A Unity Atlantic co-production with Gerador X Project Manifest

WORK IN PROGRESS DRAFT 2024.02.14 for CADD

Art Direction, Choreography, Dance: Deirdre Molloy

Assistant choreographer, Dance: Aurélie Capelle-Sigère

Ensemble Dancers (Lisbon): 

- Miguel Graça

- Tomaz Silva "Kocadinha"

- Conceição Dias dos Santos Resende

- Miguel Mabiala

- Valdemar Palhares

- Gracieth Evalina

Audio-visual (Lisbon) Gerador

Lighting tech: Auditório da Biblioteca Orlando 

Camera 1: Frank Saalfeld

Camera 2 & Drone & live Audio recording: Ricardo Faustino

Co-producers: Clara Amante, Miguel Bica, Martin Campos

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Ring Shout Audio Credits:

Lead Vocal: Alyria Salazar

Vocal, percussion:  Aurélie Capelle-Sigère, Deirdre Molloy, Karamoko Sanogo, Socha

Sound Engineer: Adrien Halfon, MJC Roguet, Toulouse.

Post-production: Thiago Gondim, Gerador, Lisbon. Deirdre Molloy.

Musical arrangement: Deirdre Molloy

Informed by culture-bearer recordings: McIntosh County Shouters, Georgia Sea Island Singers, and the Seniorlites. Artistic influences:  Rushida Bumbray’s Run Mary Run (2011).

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Maps

The author mapped rhythms onto an Encyclopaedia Britannica map of The Great Migration. It's visual narrative distilling a wide range of readings and consultation with Damon Stone and Brenda Russell. These rhythm maps are a work in progress that would benefit from consultation with a musicologist, to correllate musical idioms with specific time periods, for example. 


African rhythms page:

Nama video and text quote are by Jean-Sébastien Bourget –  for a full list of performance credits see https://vimeo.com/349292916

Jean-Sébastien Bourget is the creator of a a drumming tutorial website in honour of the late djembefola Sega Sidibe. The site illustrates by ensemble performance with accomplished dancers the techniqe of playing for dancers.

Jean-Sébastien Bourget (2020)  http://baaraniogonya.com

Kako Kone : West African YouTube playlist:
videos from various sources as listed on YouTube.

Header & Footer Photos
Header banners – by author except
1) Space-Time header: Google slides template default.
2) Caribbean header: source/photographer unknown.
3) West Africa header: image courtesy of Lucky Lartey, photograper unknown.

This page footer: icons of Asante textile art – montage based on informally archived Adrinka icons from www.adinkra.org. Both symbols express the aphorism of Sankofa, "learn from the past."

This page header: mural in the Tabacalera studios, Lavapies, Madrid 2017, photo by author.

Additional sound: Damon Stone interview Part 3 (26.02.2021), is edited and reproduced here by kind permission of The Blues Room.

Additional video: Bibiw closeup videos edited and reproduced by kind permission of Motion Lab.

Would you like to collaborate or support?

This multimedia ethnography concept aims to seed a coherent African Diaspora identity narrative, network and resources in hearts, minds and institutions worldwide. This exhibition prototype is a work in progress. Collaborative, curatorial, or media enquires welcome. Contact the author at 122115291@umail.ucc.ie 




Dedication

Eternal gratitude to those who trust me with their stories, enrich this resource and support my studies with their knowledge. Thanks also to my dance partners, Aurélie and Ophelie.Reconnaissance éternelle à ceux qui me confient leurs histoires, enrichissent cette ressource et soutiennent mes études avec leurs connaissances. Merci également à mes partenaires de danse, Aurélie et Ophélie. The first prototype of this archive concept integrated with my Ethnochoreology Masters Arts Practice thesis, submitted to the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2021. Since then it's become an iterative channel within my Arts Practice PhD, supervised by Prof. J. Griffith Rollfson at University College Cork and Prof Hourya Bentouyami at University of Toulouse. For practical support, thanks is due to my dance communities, friends and family, and to the trustees and jury of the Danijela Memorial Scholarship from UCC.