Unlike “Sweet Land” — an interactive, site-specific work filled with sung dialogue that challenged the hegemony of the rote American origin story centering white settlers’ westward expansion in the name of Manifest Destiny
The performance is an exploration of that reality and how we might organize and resist, Lilleth says, adding, “We have to learn how to be together. We have to learn how to cooperate, and we also have to learn how to downregulate our nervous systems inside the chaos.” Fure says that, in the midst of compounding emergencies Lilleth mentioned, they are desperate for spaces that don’t rely on speech and aren’t about “the breakdowns of communication that are so rampant and destructive and omnipresent now.”
This is how the heart of a person who loves beats.