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Vanessa Hernández Cruz and walker Pluto, guest artists, in The world was ending, so they danced, and they were free (2023), directed by Bradford Chin, University of California, Irvine. Lighting design by Jimmy Balistreri; costume design by Kaylynn Sutton; set design by Bradford Chin and Bill Kingsbury. Photo courtesy of Bradford Chin.
Image Description: Vanessa and her walker Pluto are silhouetted as they travel away from the viewer and through a narrow portal of fiery sunlight at the back of the stage, under a large tapestry print of Petrona Viera’s Recreo (c. 1924) displaying a hopeful vision of children dancing through and around each other in the lush green grass.