What Do You See explores the expectations of audiences and the many questions creators ponder when generating work.
What do you (expect to) see (from a performer)?
What do you (expect to) hear (from a composer)?
What pictures are evoked when we are singing?
What do we feel when you are touched by our creation?
Why?
Is there disappointment when there are no frame drums leading us in, or alternating strong and weak beats- does your curiosity end when we ask you to listen to our song rather than our identity?
The text for this piece was written by the composer and inspired by a quote from the opera, “Missing” (Clements/Current). Sung by Marion Nege’ga Newman, she asks, “What do you see when you see me?”
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“In many ways he has changed it” is a piece written for Lorena Navarro and her mother, in honor of generational thought, ancestral healing, and the ongoing search for place, movement, and belonging. It reflects the evolving dialogue between generations—translation, kinship, understanding, and the steady momentum of intergenerational healing unfolding today.
The work draws from a poem written by Lorena’s mother in high school, titled “Who Am I,” as well as conversations with Lorena about her relationship to it. As a young person, her mother encountered the poem in a different America—one rooted in optimism, progress, and the promise of change, yet shaped by the dismissal of individual and cultural difference. Reading it now, the words land differently. The meanings of progress and responsibility have shifted.
This piece seeks to hold complexity. It meditates on how responsibility to community transforms across generations, the inherited legacy of strength and ambition, and how forward-looking leadership in our communities is, and has always been, led by Native women.
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