J.WORLD STILL: Amariyon Green on piano with Charis Railey

When You See Josephine, You See Her Mother (2022) Watch here This short film was funded by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and presented Choreographer/dancer Charis Railey, plays Josephine Baker’s mother: Carrie McDonald, who was famous for her dancing abilities. The archive contains only one sentence from a Baker biography that states she could dance with a glass/bottle on her head. That sentence is our jumping-off point for creatively imagining this world of ragtime and the blues, and of the dancing that Baker saw as a child and inherited from her mother. Further, we speculate that Josephine’s grand-mother gave the gift of dance to Josephine’s Mother and Aunt