It starts as a melancholy tale. A woman dies in her prime, and her impressionable young son—already prone to flights of fancy—imagines his mother’s pet African Grey parrot, which was gifted away, has taken off with her voice.

Would he ever find that dear sound again? His search was on, propelling him through regions of dance and poetry and song. And what seems like fable is in fact autobiography, now being told in a multi-art performance by South Florida dancer-choreographer-director Pioneer Winter alongside special members of his collective.

“In the Belly of the Bird/Godmother,” the staging of an incident in Winter’s early life and the ripples of yearning it sent down the course of his artistic journey, comes to the auditorium at Miami Beach Regional Library on Thursday, Oct. 9, present

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