Stella, Come Home

Stella, Come Home is a dance-theater piece that translates the iconic American play A Streetcar Named Desire into movement and dance through the bodies of Et Alia Theater Company’s international women. We feel urged to explore what it means to perform this pinnacle of US theater as immigrant women in New York City, one of the most heterogeneous cities in the world. Just as a reality-stricken Blanche longs for a return to her imagined Belle Reve, we are outsiders going through the painful struggle of letting go of our past, while the promised land of NYC forces us to face our truth: culturally diverse women still have to fight to claim their space.

Presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Directed by SarAika Movement Collective

Assistant Directed by Marina Zurita

Performed by Ana Moioli, Giorgia Valenti, Israel Harris, Luísa Galatti & Maria Müller

Costume/prop designers: Federica Borlenghi & Valentina Torresi; Sound Designer: Julio Vaquero Ramos; Graphic Designer: Marieli Pereira; Press Agent: Gillian Britt; PR Assistant: Isabella Gómez Girón; Stage Manager, Lighting Designer

SarAika Movement Collective is a movement collective based in New York since 2021, funded by Aika Takeshima (Japan) and Sara Pizzi (Italy), both immigrants, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC supporters and representatives. Their art is a form of activism, documenting key issues and topics, creating space for reflection. In order to achieve their mission of helping people find more freedom & possibilities in themselves, they make art about and for humans, breaking the concept of standard performance creating collaborative, conceptual, interactive art experiences. Coming from a polyhedral education, Sara & Aika based their choreography on contemporary dance, partnering, floorwork, improvisation skills, story telling, conceptual art and street style influences.

Et Alia Theater is a NYC based theater company founded and led by international women. We bring together an unfamiliar combination of foreign and immigrant voices and offer them a space to explore and interchange their multicultural perspectives. We use our art to expose the obstacles experienced by immigrant women and empower our community. As a company who is committed to blurring borders, Et Alia is not limited to a single form of work and is open to creating conversations through different styles of theater. We strive to make the ‘out of place’ a place. Et Alia is Latin for ‘And Other’: we create art for the other, by the other, and about the other. Et Alia Theater is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas and a proud member of A.R.T. New York and Materials for the Arts.

Grants Received for this show:

A.R.T./New York Strengthening NYC Theaters Grant – 2022

A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund – 2022

Brooklyn Arts Council – Community Arts Grant – 2022

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