The multi-media performance piece will screen seven local storytellers who have experienced being “othered.” The storytellers focus on racism, gender bias, immigration prejudice and LGBTQ issues. They include an African American man, a transgender man, a gay man, Black woman and an Asian immigrant—all who have first-hand experience with these challenges. As each story is told, on a large 20’x20’ screen, dancers will perform solos to eight stories.

For the belonging part of Belonging and Othering, choreographer Anna Myer has adapted steps, sections and movement phrases from the solos performed in the first part of the piece to create the second half about what it looks and feels like to belong. Myer says her goal is to portray “how each of our stories and hardships can be transformed by the support of community, so we can move beautifully together and flow.”