Somewhere to Land features an original live musical score by Bay Area luminaries Destani Wolf (singer with Bobby Mcferrin’s Motion, Cirque Du Soliel, and multiple GRAMMY-nominated albums) and Ben Juodvalkis (composer for BANDALOOP, Lines Ballet, Joe Goode Performance Group, and many others).

Wolf and Juodvalkis are composing a living multi-lingual song cycle around themes of bird migration and human migration. This vertical dance theater song cycle premiered in La Plaza de la Constitución in Santiago, Chile in January 2023, and came up the pacific flyway to the historic Fairmont Hotel in Los Angeles in February of that year, the songs and dances migrated to the Sundial Bridge in Redding California in July 2024.

At Somewhere to Land, it will be adapted to the site and story of De-Pave Park.

Migratory birds, directed by ancient internal maps, inspire us to consider how our own personal migration stories may hold wisdom for us in how we navigate the ever increasing changes and challenges of environmental and social change.

Artistic Director Melecio Estrella describes his work as “focusing on human/land relationships in our time of co-arising climate and social crises” and will lead the creation and site adaptation of Somewhere To Land, bringing forward familial immigration stories and generating choreography from art/science dramaturgical research into human and animal migrations in our time of climate crisis and political instability."

Set against the backdrop of the post-military ecological design of De-Pave park, the artists hope to invoke both personal and collective reflections on migration at Alameda’s transforming terrestrial aquatic interface.

Six BANDALOOP performers are illuminated by the lighting design of Jim French (lighting director of San Francisco Ballet and others) with a multilingual score performed live by Destani Wolf and Ben Juodvalkis that is sung in Spanish, Tagalog and English.