Please join the Department of English Visiting Writers Series for a reading and Q&A with poet, choreographer, and dancer Rebe Huntman.
From 1998-2009, Rebe Huntman directed Chicago’s award-winning Danza Viva Center for World Dance, Art & Music and its resident dance company, One World Dance Theater. Her work in Latin and Afro Cuban dance has taken her to Cuba and South America to collaborate with native artists, been featured in Latina Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, spotlighted on Fox and ABC News, and has served as inspiration for much of her writing. Her essays, poems and short stories have been published in places like The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, CRAFT Literary, Lit Hub, The Cincinnati Review, Parabola, Ninth Letter, Writer's Digest, and The Pinch.
In My Mother in Havana, Rebe Huntman embarks on a pilgrimage into the mysteries of the gods and saints of Cuba and their larger spiritual view of the Mother. Huntman offers a window into the extraordinary world of Afro-Cuban gods and ghosts and the dances and rituals that call them forth. As she explores the memory of her own mother, interlacing it with her search for the sacred feminine, Huntman leads us into a world of séance and sacrifice, pilgrimage and sacred dance, which resurrect her mother and bring Huntman face to face with a larger version of herself.
This reading is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for sale from Prologue Bookshop.