Lu Coy, jeremy de’jon guyton, Luna Izpisua Rodriguez

Lu Coy (Music Performer Composer MFA 18) crafts an opera that illuminates the Florentine Codex’s account of Tecciztecatl—a gender-expansive Mexica moon deity. Blending original poetry with translation of the 16th-century Nahuatl manuscript, this performance unfolds through song, animation, storytelling, and movement. Guiding audiences through transcestral memory, Coy conjures a retelling that connects to their own lived experiences of the ache an...