Name: Virginia Grise & Martha Gonzalez
Start: 2022-10-20T00:00:00
Location: Bass Concert Hall

Martha Gonzalez

Texas Performing Arts

As the culmination of her one-week residency at Texas Performing Arts, writer Virginia Grise invites the audience into her creative and collaborative process. Together with musical director Martha Gonzalez, they will discuss the evolution of their latest project, Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind, inspired by Helena María Viramontes' epic novel Their Dogs Came with Them. From sharp shooters to earthmovers, roaming dogs, helicopters in the sky, quarantines and men that fly, the performance lecture chronicles the page-to-stage process of adapting the novel in a medium security women's prison in Goodyear, Arizona with a team of collaborators from both inside and outside the prison and the site-specific staging of the play under the I-19 Freeway in Tucson, Arizona with a community cast of scholars, organizers and actors. The artists will give a sneak peek into the songs currently being created for the concept album Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind as they grapple with the question: can art set our people free?