mo(_)rning becomes them

Both mourning and transition are processes that defy linear logic and instead challenge us to continually re-examine and shift the boundaries that people experience within themselves as well as those imposed on them by society.

Defying the narrow confines of binary notions of gender, mo(_)rning becomes them traces a detachment from gendered categorization while celebrating non-binary transition. In doing so, mo(_)rning becomes them creates space for the processes of grief that may accompany a transition. mo(_)rning becomes them assumes that grief and transition are often experienced individually and perhaps even in isolation, even though they take place within social structures.

In this sense, mo(_)rning becomes them is an attempt to translate the individual experience of grief and transition into a collective space.

The audience is invited to read the English text together and thus actively shape the performance themselves.

Between dance, storytelling, and reading aloud, the bodies and voices of the performer and the people in the audience weave together into a network that invites us to carry one another and be carried.