Love’s “Exercise 4” is the latest in a series of experimental performances that the interdisciplinary tap dance artist is using to shape and develop his larger work entitled, “rhy/ntology (or, to be the rhythm).” The series currently includes "Exercises 1, 2, 3, and 4.”

Love is working to premiere “rhy/ntology (or, to be the rhythm)” as an ensemble presentation at a later date. With “rhy/ntology,” Love remains committed to his positioning of rhythm as an embodied-intellectual method for researching Black cultural histories as he shifts his focus from working “with and through” rhythm to working “as,” or becoming, rhythm. Instead of looking towards what literary scholar Nadia Ellis calls an “elsewhere” of liberatory possibilities for Black queerness or attempting to travel to such a “new and satisfying space of exile” as he has done in his previous work, Love ventures to explore the possibility of becoming his own “elsewhere.” Ultimately, “rhy/ntology” will encompass Love’s embodied, rhythm-based explorations of themes such as legacy, futurity, labor in the name of liberation and pleasure, and the Ellis-ian concept of “resolving” one’s own “potential.”