Reasons for Moving is an interdisciplinary performance about the experiences of first, second, and third generation immigrants. Bringing together dance, theater, and digital media, Reasons for Moving frames performance as a site to engage community conversation about how cultures of origin inform our identities outside of their homelands.
Performers are: Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle, whose mother left Uganda for the UK and later came to the US on a student visa; Mai Moua Thao, born in a refugee camp in Thailand; and Skye Reddy, whose family lost their ancestral homelands in the colonial Partition of South Asia. Their families’ biographies anchor an exploration of intergenerational and social negotiations of culture, memory and imagination.
Directed by Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento with media and sound design by Eliot Gray Fisher, lighting design and technical direction by Thomas Barrett, and costume design by Lynn Farrington.