About Me
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I am a Black, Queer, Gender Expansive Lesbian & Houston native. I draw from astrology, story, and ancestry to create multi-disciplinary performance art and community programming. A Very Well-Read Black Girl, highly trauma-informed, Baptist-church raised, and a practicing astrologer, I use my creative process to disrupt and challenge systems of oppression with the hope of arriving at new and expansive possibilities.
Darkness -or the concepts, practices, people etc- that are often relegated to the dark or margins (birth, death, sex, grief, loss) is my playground. Working in capitalism often feels like sex work, in that I pick and choose which parts of my body are for sell and for how much. So in my work I'm interested in crafting worlds with this in mind, pulling from Strip Clubs, Skating Rinks, Peep Shows etc, understanding that darkness is not in conflict with light because some lights shine the brightest in the dark. In my current solo practice I use story, astrology, vocal improvisation and movement to create living performance spaces. I'm currently exploring the question "Where is My Home From Here? Drawing from my experiences as a young girl in Houston and placing them against my lived adult experience in New York, I'm hoping to sit inside of the process and contradictions of becoming an adult. In this work, I revisit wounds with the intention to rewrite/replace/ recenter myself and necessary narratives, so that I may live with more space to express, explore and evolve. Playing with memory and harmony and sensations, I hope that audience members are both nurtured and challenged by the work. You can keep up with me by listening to my weekly episodes of Erotic Embodiment, becoming a patron, or following me on IG. A Note From Kadie: Nothing comes from nowhere. I am from so many places, women and spaces, so I honor those that continue to care for me in this frequency and the next: Glorious Butler (to the right), Hewitt Henderson, Mattie Clyde Ross Henderson, Emma Lou Flowers, Margie Hart. |
"understanding that darkness is not in conflict with light because some lights shine the brightest in the dark."
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CollaborationsDANCING + PERFORMING
Kadie has had the honor and privilege to work with several New York based artists including Jasmine Hearn, Wi-Moto Nyoka, Nia Witherspoon, Pyeng Threadgill, and most recently Ogemdi Ude. Watch Kadie featured in Jasmine Hearn's work untitled. Photo Credit: Whitney Brown |
Erotic Embodiment
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The Erotic Embodiment podcast was birthed by the We Makin It podcast. Each episode is an audio archive of my process as well as offerings to the collective, based on my astrological understandings and intuitions. It's great for folks who want to know more about my work or want to deepen their understanding of astrology as an embodied practice.
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