ABSTRACT
Silvana Cardell’s dance-theater work, Supper, People on the Move, wrestles with the realities of migration in a world dictated by borders. Originally premiering in Philadelphia in 2015, this work requires audience members to reflect on their own relationship with borders, immigration, and citizenship. By theorizing alongside Cardell, this chapter reveals how Supper, People on the Move activates border spaces and investigates trespassing through dance. Placed in conversation with Lorgia García Peña’s concept of rayano consciousness and Jade Power-Sotomayor’s construction of “dancing in place,” Supper contributes an embodied, performance-based understanding of border-crossing. Tables, papers, coffee grounds, and bodies merge to unearth migratory realities and, ultimately, imagine beyond the limits of the nation-state.
