Traveling Shoes is an experimental short based on a performative sound work that employs a mobile shoe shine stand with a built in sound system, a jazz trio, a marching band and a shoe shiner engaged in golf-leafing the public’s shoes as a metaphor for ascension. Drawing its title from an African American traditional folk song that speaks of the necessity for traveling shoes when death comes to call, the video and performance investigate a shifted labor hierarchy, where the shoe shiner provides the means for redemption. The piece is a collaboration with Filmmaker Bradly Dever Treadaway, Conceptual Director Justin Randolph Thompson, Choreographer Stephanie Nelson, Composer Jason Thompson, frog and Toads Dixie Quartet, and the Henry W. Grady High School Jazz Ensemble.