to be free explores immigrant hypervisibility and surveillance through sound-movement choreography. Responding to what it means to be seen and make art with our bodies during heightened scrutiny, this piece centers observation and deep listening to the invisible, sacred, and absent.
Audiences will experience layered sonic landscapes created through loop pedals, body microphones, and live vocals, interwoven with choreography that embodies the invisibilities of immigrant labor and the absence of what was left behind. The performance moves between moments of hypervisibility and disappearance, using repetitive soundscapes and gestural movement to create an immersive meditation on presence.
As transcontinental artists whose families immigrated seeking better lives, we use our bodies as both instruments and archives, creating a living testimony to being seen, unseen, and surveilled while honoring immigrant resilience.