slayin' demons (or familiar gestures of the soul) from korean mom Watch Video
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Description: My mom and I perform a traditional Korean dance called salpuri in our living room and Chickasaw Heritage Park in Memphis, formerly known as DeSoto Park, where ceremonial mounds from the Chickasaw nation were excavated for artillery storage during the Civil War. The dance is rooted in shamanistic rituals associated with exorcisms and represents the unraveling of negative spiritual and emotional forces, and is an embodied way to acknowledge and converse with the memories of the land while exercisi
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