In Maya Stovall’s Liquor Store Theater performance piece, dance foregrounds an ethnographic study on McDougall-Hunt residents as they are marginalized by socio-economic, ethnoracial, and/or gender classifications in post-bankruptcy Detroit. The McDougall-Hunt neighborhood is hard-pressed for resources; the city is untouched by the urban renewal of Downtown Detroit. Stovall chooses to conduct her dance study in front of liquor stores because of their ubiquity in McDougall-Hunt, which lends the stores and its shoppers a sense of anonymity. Stovall draws attention to these anonymous spaces, places, and people by disrupting their invisibility in the public eye. She challenges the prying gaze of “helicopter researcher/artist” by literally conducting her research on the ground, creating a performative, yet vulnerable, space to hold her interviews. In doing so, Stovall tries to capture to essence of McDougall-Hunt and its residents, celebrating them by imbuing her interviews with the joy of performance.