“And So We Gather” by Leah Glenn Dance Theatre
Time & Location
Saturday, May 2, 2026
8:00 PM EST
The Carver Community Cultural Center
226 North Hackberry
San Antonio, TX 78202
On May 2, 2026, the Leah Glenn Dance Theatre performed "And So We Gather," a dance concert featuring dance, poetry and imagery inspired by Nikki Giovanni and other Wintergreen Women. Leah Glenn, Latorial Faison, Joanne Gabbin, Opal Moore, and Hermine Pinson joined 10 amazing dancers to perform at the historic Carver Community Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas.
This vibrant tribute concert weaved contemporary dance with evocative poetry, accompanied by the bold visual art of Steve Prince and an original score by Grammy-nominated Composer Hannibal Lokumbe.
Leah Glenn is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Dance at William & Mary as well as the Founder and Artistic Director of Leah Glenn Dance Theatre (LGDT). With a mission to cultivate a greater understanding of the world in which we live through works that inspire and challenge audiences, LGDT has presented concerts at the Katzen Museum, Dance Place, the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the ASWAD (Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora) Conference. After joining the faculty at William & Mary in 2006, Glenn has presented reconstructions of Pearl Primus’ Bushasche Etude, the Parsons Etude, and Donald McKayle's Rainbow Etude. From 2020-2023, Glenn was awarded the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of Dance and Africana Studies at William & Mary.
Joanne Gabbin is Professor Emerita of English at James Madison University and founder of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the first academic center devoted to Black poetry. She is the author of Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition, editor of Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present and The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry, and executive producer of the Furious Flower video and DVD series. She also co-edited Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry with Lauren K. Alleyne. She is the founder and organizer of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective and author of the children’s book, I Bet She Called Me Sugar Plum. A dedicated teacher and scholar, Dr. Gabbin has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Among them are the College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award for her book Sterling A. Brown (1986) and the Outstanding Faculty Award, Virginia State Council of Higher Education.
Opal Moore is the author of the poetry collection, Lot’s Daughters, a meditation on Black souls in migration. Her poems, short fiction and essays appear in various journals and anthologies including Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic; The Boston Review; Callaloo: The Notre Dame Review; Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor, and Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers. Opal is a Cave Canem and Bellagio fellow. She is an original member of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective and is our Programs and Partnerships Coordinator. Her current work-in-progress is titled “Color”.
A native of east Texas, Hermine Pinson is a poet, fiction writer, and Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English & Africana Studies at the College of William and Mary. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in anthologies such as Common Bonds and KenteCloth. Pinson is the author of three collections of poetry, Áshe, Mama Yetta and Other Poems, and Dolores is Blue/ Dolorez is Blues. She is also the author of a play, Walk Together, Children.
Latorial Faison is a Virginia poet, author, professor, veteran military spouse, and mother. She is the author of historical research, The Missed Education of the Negro: An Examination of the Black Segregated Education Experience in Southampton County, and over a dozen poetry collections, including Permafrost Poetry Prize winner, Nursery Rhymes in Black (Univ Press of Colorado), Blood at the Root (Finishing Line Press), Mother to Son, the 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History trilogy, and other collections. Faison’s work has been featured in Callaloo, Obsidian, Prairie Schooner, Artemis Journal, RHINO, Southern Women’s Review, About Place Journal, West Trestle Review, and Stonecoast. Faison is a Pushcart nominee, recipient of the Tom Howard Poetry Prize and fellowships from Furious Flower Poetry Center, AWP, and VA Humanities. An alum of UVA, VA TECH, and VSU, Faison is Assistant Prof. of English & Dept. Chair of Languages & Literature at Virginia State University.
About Wintergreen Writers Collective
The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective is a 501(c)3 organization that gathers Black women writers in a literary community that seeks to publish, document, preserve, and celebrate their creative work. More than 70 women from all over the country have taken part in one or more of the Wintergreen retreats or programs over the last 38 years, coming to a place where they can do the sacred work of literary and cultural production. Wintergreen Women are prefiguring a world where the history and legacy of Black women writers are honored and preserved—a world where Black women writers have access to intergenerational spaces where, in community and mutuality, they can nurture one another and locate resources to support their creative practice. Members of the Collective share their knowledge and creativity as a way of encouraging and engaging one another and their extended literary and scholarly communities.
About Leah Glenn Dance Theatre
Founded and led by William & Mary College Professor of Dance Leah Glenn, Leah Glenn Dance Theatre is a modern dance company dedicated to cultivating a greater understanding of the world in which we live through thought-provoking works of art that entertain, inspire and challenge its audiences. Leah Glenn Dance Theatre has presented concerts at the Katzen Museum, Dance Place, the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the ASWAD (Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora) Conference at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in November 2019.
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