In the Studio: Land/Home Journal 1
Photos by Keira Hew-Jwyn Chang So Land/Home is well on its way. The work is revealing itself to me as we continue to dive deep (as always). I am so blessed to be working with a group of amazing dance artists: Peiling Kao, Sophia Leiby, Jochelle Perena and Nzinga Woods. For this piece I am interested in creating a "home" with my dancers on stage that holds all the beauty and complexity of what it means to be people displaced from the physicality of our homelands. Our shared physical location of home is the U.S. For me, I do not think we can be at home if we do not feel safe and valued. During the first rehearsal I asked my dancers the question: What are the myths we tell ourselves to maintain our complacency in the face of injustice in the U.S.? This rehearsal was right after the announcement of the disheartening and upsetting Mehserle sentencing decision so we all had a lot to say. Some of the social control myths that folks came up with wer...