wild light

wild light imagines into the year 2425, where human creatures encounter a dying earth and look toward healing this future-imagined place as a way to heal their own sense of displacement. This two-part semi-immersive performance is made up of two parts: for a moment, earthbound, an otherworldly solo performed by, Bhumi Patel, and ghosts of camille, performed by Ài Yīn 艾音 Adelski, Catalina O'Connor, Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, and monique jonath. 

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for a moment, earthbound is an intergalactic solo danced by Patel, who brings her lived lineages of displacement, alienation, and hybridity as inspiration to create this piece. After crash-landing on a dying earth, Patel grapples with being the vessel for many lineages all at once. On stage, she creates an asianfuturist world that challenges the displacement of femmes in queer communities. 

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ghosts of camille is a quartet inspired by Donna Haraway’s queer, feminist, speculative fiction work “The Camille Stories: Children of Compost,” tracing five generations of Camille from 2025 to 2425 during a period when the human population has rapidly dropped and only half of the species alive in 2015 still exist. The protagonists of this story, Camilles 1 to 4 are symbionts, creatures who have merged their human DNA with the monarch butterfly in order to survive the climate disasters of the Earth. In the work, the audience is asked to imagine beyond the beyond, where lines between human and more-than-human dissolve.

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Funding:

• Rainin Foundation

• City of Berkeley

• Zellerbach

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Thank you to our individual donors:

• Ian Anderson

• Lydia Daniller

• Charlie Dunkin

• Eula Dunkin

• Amelia Estrada

• Rebecca Fitton

• Pragati Gusmano

• Carolyn Jeffires

• Erika Jenssen

• Belinda Ju

• Erica Lessner

• Joe Metzler

• Hannah Schwadron

• Deborah Slater

• Nadhi Thekkek

• Hannah Westbrook

• Farah Yasmeen Shaikh