Nothin But Islands

2025 | Betty’s Garden - Brooklyn, NY

Nothin But Islands is a sensory offering into the heart of memory, myth, and collective return, reminding us that true reconnection and future making require deep ritual, movement, and embodied listening. Created by interdisciplinary artist Sabrina Frómeta and presented at Betty’s Community Garden in Ocean Hill during the fall harvest season, the piece creates a living portal to Yucāley, a speculative island sanctuary where Black and Indigenous bodies, stories, and futures can be experienced in new and resonant ways.

As composer and music director, I created a grief song that guided the dancers’ movement, along with original compositions and live sound that wove through the ritual, cacao ceremony, storytelling, and performance. Held in the crisp autumn air, the sound became a living current, honoring the grief of the fall harvest while anchoring cycles of rest and renewal as it resonated with the garden and gathered community. Through movement, storytelling, sound, and ceremonial practice, the work activates the garden as a temporary sanctuary, inviting introspection, participation, and mutual awakening. It is grounded in themes of diasporic solidarity, ancestral wisdom, healing, and the unseen currents that tie us to each other and the living earth.