Waiting for the Cactus to Bloom is a quiet, experimental, solo performance that stages the tension between becoming and inheritance—between one’s emerging longings and sense of self, and the expectations passed down through family, history, and structures that shape what feels possible.

 

Refusing abstraction through the use of personal narrative, the work asks the viewer to encounter a single life and body as a site where broader social and structural forces quietly operate, shaping identity and relationships. 

 

By resisting speed and spectacle, Waiting for the Cactus to Bloom creates the conditions for stillness, dreaming, and collective imagination. It gently disrupts a culture of urgency, ushering the audience into shared contemplation. 

 

A living, emergent work structured through improvisation, Waiting for the Cactus to Bloom changes each time it is performed.

 

It asks: What do we do with what remains? What capacities must we build to endure uncertainty while remaining whole, together?