“Once There Was and Once There Was Not”: A Play in V Acts
In January 2024, I collaborated with earthbased.media to
create a micro short film “teaser” of the longer play.
"Once There Was and Once There Was Not", an original choreopoem based on stories and themes of the wild woman archetype, as told in Clarissa Pinkola Estes' seminal work "Women Who Run With the Wolves" - a Jungian exploration of intercultural myths, stories, folk and fairy tales. The stories in this play are adapted to characters and settings reflecting the Mexican-American lived experience, but like their original tellings, are relatable to all.
If a story is seed, then we are its soil.
We are its soil: permeable. complex.
Too complex, some would say.
For this world.
For all times.
And we are tired.
wear & tear
“Let us keep thinking about how we can use storytelling and art for people with flooded homes, flooded jobs, and flooded nervous systems.”
- Madison Murphy Barney, Our Medicine
