KYLYN Festival | Dance Performance: A Floating World

Event Summary

Date(s): Friday, May 15, 2026
Time: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
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Event Description

A Floating World is a movement-based performance from AAPI Performance Collaborative IS/LAND grounded in the belief that there exists an ephemeral “floating world” of ancestral consciousness and connectivity. We brush against this floating world in moments of sudden, yet inexplicable, familiarity – lucid dreaming, tasting something new that instantly feels known. These indecipherable encounters are surprising and confusing, yet they stir a profound, unconscious realization of a deeper reality that we cannot consciously understand. Intense emotional experiences, particularly grief, also evoke this connection to the ‘floating world,’ leaving us raw and destabilized.

IS/LAND is an interdisciplinary Performance Collaborative composed of AAPI artists and collaborators. IS/LAND performances center movement, storytelling, and aesthetics as processes to explore the extensive and diverse landscape of AAPI lived experience, including an increased focus on optimizing audience engagement through reflection, education, and dialogue.

This event is part of the KYLYN APIA Arts and Culture Festival.

For teens & adults. Held in Fourth Floor Program Room