Ellpetha Tsivicos: CHAK

Chak is a performance piece that uses original text, adapted indigenous Mexica poems, masks, music from Greece and Anatolia, projections, and water to examine the effects that working within predominantly American-Anglo institutions has on indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, and first-generation Americans. Set in a New York apartment, a cenote, a Greek Orthodox church, and a museum, the piece uses ritual to examine how we negotiate our dreams, ambitions, and identity in order to succeed (or just keep our day jobs.)