I Came Here to Weep

Nov. 15-16, 2024

Friday, 11/15 7:30  p.m.
Saturday, 11/16 at 7:30  p.m.

Wirtz Theater (Room 203)
Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts
Chicago Campus
Abbott Hall
710 N. Lake Shore Drive

Created by Yanira Castro/a canary torsi

Interactive Sound Design by Stephan Moore

Installation Design by Kathy Couch

Production Manager LD DeArmon

Creative Producer Ariel Lembeck

First presented at Brooklyn’s Chocolate Factory Theatre in 2023, I came here to weep is a performance installation led by Bessie-Award winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Yanira Castro, and co-created with the public. It is a multimodal, interactive project made up of participatory scores with corresponding materials and a built audio environment designed by NU faculty member and sound artist Stephan Moore. This in-process iteration of the participatory performance is the culmination of a 2-week artist residency at Northwestern focused on design. Audiences are invited to join the artists in experimenting with this new installation, an interactive mountain, a body/mass that breathes, shifts, adapts, thunders.I came here to weep examines U.S. territorial possession, Puerto Rican sovereignty, and invites the audience into a collective exorcism.

I came here to weep is a part of the Chicago Latin Theater Alliance’s (CLATA) DESTINOS, 7^th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, Sept. 30-Nov. 17. 

AUDIENCE ADVSORY: 

The work involves audience participation