The Weight of Lives - UCSD New Directions - Spring 2024

The Weight of Lives is a dance theatre piece that showcases a condensed excerpt of my 2023-2024 UCSD Playwriting Thesis. This showing opened the UCSD’s Dance Department showcase, New Directions, in Spring 2024. Thesis Advisor: Naomi Iizuka Directed by: Fabricio Apuy Novella SYNOPSIS The Weight of Lives follows two siblings from a pre-technological fictional village who discover that their village will soon come under invasion by an unknown human force. The two siblings explore their connection to the spiritual world through dance in search of answers to this horrific discovery in order to save their village and the surrounding spirit-inhabited forest. Story written and created by: Fabricio Apuy Novella Co-Choreographers: Fabricio Apuy Novella & Saryah Colbert