Produced by Keila Cordova/3 Pony Show

Performed by Jaye Allison and Vyette Tiya

Philadelphia Fringe Festival | Icebox Project Space | September 2023

A Tree When No Moon Shines is a 45-minute multimedia dance theatre work that mixes storytelling with seeds concerning family, land & migration. It premiered September 2, 11 and 19 in The Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

She left behind a body a mile back: large, imposing, almost completely hidden in the reeds. The crickets were loud. They would tell her secrets to anyone who would listen. She stood now in overgrown grass, looking back at what was home, in the tandem tension between the past and present, between the sweet smell of honeysuckle and of red dirt clinging to her legs and bared feet. She remembered how the elders told tales to try to keep the young ones safe.