Director Jennifer Sargent is musing on a new project with a working title, "Alluvium":

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As a native of Berkeley, California now based in New Orleans, I am fascinated with how our psyche interacts with the land that holds us. A colleague of mine specializing in body-based trauma recently commented, “It’s hard for people who were born in a place of bedrock to find grounding in New Orleans, situated on river sediment and water.” I am exploring a solo movement-based performance project that will compare the geology and ecology of Northern California (my childhood home) to the land under New Orleans, seeking how the dynamics of the earth reverberate within the structure of the body, the state of the psyche, and the layers of memories and traumas we hold in our cells. Movement compositions will investigate the worlds within Californian rock over 80 million years old and Mississippi River sediment a mere 4,000 years old; the tension of the San Andreas and Hayward faults and land so soft it shakes when a large truck passes; the mountains of the Bay Area still rising slowly and the Delta sinking in front of our eyes. The summer of 2020 saw record wild fires burning across California as two hurricanes barreled towards New Orleans. What relationships do these ferocious elements have to the human body as steward and partner to the land?

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