Fire Underground delves into the very uncertainty and unknowingness of recent times, drawing from choreographer Donna Uchizono's harrowing experience in a complex international adoption process—a controversy involving claims of fraudulent international adoptions and child trafficking, exacerbated by the country’s ongoing political crises of leadership and the U.S. government’s incompetence in handling the situation (which now leaves countless abandoned children unable to obtain U.S. visas to enter our shores) has violently brought to the forefront the unstable ground of uncertain endings and their real human consequences. Addressing the current international adoption crisis, Fire Underground is about the space that opens up while waiting, interminably, for an uncertain outcome.
Tags:Contemporary Dance, Experimental Dance, Modern Dance, Dance and International Adoption