A Tree When No Moon Shines is a 45-minute multimedia dance theatre work that mixes storytelling with seeds concerning family, land & migration. It premiered September 2, 11 and 19 in The Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
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“I'm interested in our bodies as cargo ships of memory, of love and loss, trauma, joy, poetry, comedy and drama. I wish to create language out of bodies and probe the hidden discourse in our physicality to understand our human story. ”
— Keila Cordova, Artist Statement
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