I CROSSED AN OCEAN FOR YOU
Conjuring our families who traversed vast distances for future generations, moments of miracle, to remember, honor, and pay our respects to those who came before us. I Crossed an Ocean for You is a contemporary modern dance work rooted in finding meaning in what we have lost and gained in the process of immigration, moving through shifting geopolitical borders, in our quest to find safety. The sacrifices of fragmenting ancestry, weight of unraveling histories and memories, and intent on survival are ideas explored in the gestural, spiraling, continual movement vocabulary in this work.
MixMatch Dance Festival, Highways Performance Space, 2024.
International Women's Day Dance Festival, Stomping Ground LA, 2024. Scripps College Richardson Dance Studio, 2024.
CREATED BY WAELI WANG
CHOREOGRAPHY BY WAELI WANG & THE DANCERS
ORIGINAL CAST | NATALIA CHAMBERS, QUINCEY KAWAHARA,
MONICA STEPHENS, MARCO VEGA
DANCERS | NATALIA CHAMBERS, NOLA GIBSON, KATIE LINGLE,
MONICA STEPHENS, MARCO VEGA, WAELI WANG
PHOTOS BY GRANT SPEICH