Camille Hernandez: Motherlands

Poet, performer, and educator Camille Hernandez presents an immersive reimagining of her celebrated chapbook Motherlands—now transformed into a choreopoem that merges movement, rhythm, and language into living performance. Rather than reciting from behind a podium, Hernandez animates her poetry through gesture, breath, and motion, weaving text and embodiment into a single, fluid expression.

Motherlands explores themes of diaspora, belonging, and inheritance—what it means to carry many homes within one body. Through her work, Hernandez navigates identity across generations, languages, and geographies, using poetry as both confession and conversation. The performance builds on the traditions of spoken word and performance art while embracing the physicality of dance and theatre.

This evening offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience poetry as performance—visceral, emotional, and alive. Hernandez’s choreopoem invites the listener to move with her through the landscapes of memory and migration, finding beauty, humor, and truth in the search for home.