Black Tie - CISPA 3rd Year Graduation Performance 2021

At a funeral reception, a grieving family attempts to commemorate a relative’s troublesome life. Overwhelmed by a torrent of sharp feeling, unexpected secrets, sealed frustrations, and forbidden loves agitatedly reveal themselves; and the family for better or for worse, is reborn.

A story composed through pictorial symbolism, physicality, and text; this interdisciplinary piece explores relationships determined by obsession, discontent, and even abuse, which manifest turbulent expressions of fear, submission, and attempted rebellion.

Confronting our inherited legacy, as a means of survival, provides the generative theme of the piece, spanning from the personal to the collective.