Pony During Pandemic

For the past year I have been working with a dancer based in Montreal, Canada (Hanako Hoshimi-Caines) and a dancer based in Stockholm, Sweden (Zoë Poluch). We have collaboratively been working on a dance piece called Radio III. The works in Radio III feature music composed by me and some songs are in the Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) languages. We have been figuring out new ways of working with each other under the circumstances and performed “Pony” from Radio III via Zoom for PICA’s TBA Festival.

The lyrics for Pony are in English and Muscogee (Creek).

Lyrics:
Rodeo

Rolling like a star

Corotke
(Crippled)

Cuko-essiyv
(Painter)

Dream away

Did you tell a story

Wild
Honece
(Wild)

Ue-home-eskv
(Drunk)

When they come at night, I ride away

Hoktet rakkon ohlikes
(A woman is riding a horse)