My name is Kaylyn.
My story is a translation of several journey’s, across several different oceans.
I am my mother’s songs and her mother’s hard work.
I am a storyteller for the ones before me that did not have the option to share.
My work is both a mouthpiece for conversation and an ear to listen to yours.
My work demands that you think about your ancestry and that you respect mine.
My art is a love letter to the traditions that have been passed on, and the new to the new ones
that will be sung and danced to.
I want to mentor and be mentored. I want to challenge my audience and ask them for their
guidance. I am passionate about bringing physical movement, song, and script together to
become questions that are reflected upon.
My work is a visual poem to the world I see. I want to smile with a room full of people who come
from different backgrounds, but want to share the same breath.
Be my Body by Kaylyn Valdez-Scott
Saturday 26 June at 9pm
An adaptation of the 1934 classic Yerma, by Federico Garcia Lorca, Be My Body explores the role of femininity and women’s worth in society through the eyes of different generations in Filipino culture. Faye is a young newlywed waiting for the world to give her all that was promised when she got married, a family to call home. However, instead of a child, rumours, bad omens, and an unfamiliar call in the night come to her instead. In a world where the moon provides solace to its closest friends, and your mind turns out to be the most unsafe place, how far will she go to find answers? Be My Body is currently still in process. This showing today is only a portion of the show.
Kaylyn would very much appreciate feedback and encourages people to email her at kaylyn.valdezscott@gmail.com
