Sharing Our Legacy Dance Theatre

For over a decade, Dr. Foreman has been part of this collaboration, which engages choreographers, poets, student researchers, and performance companies to bring early Black history to the stage.

With internationally renowned choreographer, arts educator, and artistic director Dr. Lynnette Young Overby and South Carolina-based poet laureate Glenis Redmond, Dr. Foreman has helped bring to life full-length performances based on her historical research on figures including writers Harriet Wilson and Harriet Jacob, enslaved poet/potter David Drake, and activist and editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

Working closely with poet Glenis Redmond under Dr. Overby's visionary direction, Dr. Foreman is SOL's resident historian. The company has performed across the U.S. and internationally. SOL members work with outside collaborators — guest choreographers, composers, artists, and educational organizations — and members incorporate significant research to add meaningful foundations to SOL's performances.

Since 2012, their performances have included works based on the lives of Harriet Wilson, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Jacobs (“The Three Harriets”) David Drake (“David Drake, the Enslaved Potter”), Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and the Colored Conventions Movement. These performances have been performed at conferences and performance centers worldwide and adopted in high school and college classes across the country.

Notably, Dr. Foreman’s most recent book, Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake (2023), emerges from this decade-long collaboration. Incorporating David Drake’s own verse, poetry and writing by Glenis Redmond, the art of Jonathan Green, and essays by Lynnette Young Overby and others, the book documents the historical research and collaborative performance work that has brought the life, art, and poetry of enslaved potter David Drake alive for a new generation.