On Homing: Finding process and place in solo performance

Abstract

Drawing on Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others as a theoretical framework, old homes have a way of moving you is a solo performance that explores home, migration, and the search for the kind of answers that move you forward. The piece follows a homing pigeon lost for the first time, who is eventually confronted with the truth that her home has changed in her absence, and it is time to find a new one. Through original poetry, archival home video, voice messages from friends, and dance, this piece weaves together a metaphor wherein the pigeon—and the performer—can say goodbye to their former home, and feel at home in the discovery of where they are going next.