Mable Lee

They're kind of the elders.

that community folks like Jimmy slide Mabel Lee Tina Pratt bunny Briggs Henry LeTang some You might find in like very very old YouTube clips like black and whites You know documents from the Jazz Age remnants from the Jazz Age and You know Through those 30 years.

I kind of did everything that I I think I wanted to do as an artist and so what happens what happens when you get to the end of you know the achievement orientation uh produced off-Broadway uh you know toured a company for 10 years choreographed internationally and then it's like yeah there's there's something more here And I started to look around.

I actually had a conversation, an early morning coffee with somebody who I'd just been introduced to a couple months earlier.