Becoming the Moon at The Getty Museum
Written and Performed by Lu Coy
Directed by LILLETH
Lu Coy (Music Performer Composer MFA 18) crafts an opera that illuminates the Florentine Codex’s account of Tecciztecatl—a gender-expansive Mexica moon deity. Blending original poetry with translation of the 16th-century Nahuatl manuscript, this performance unfolds through song, animation, storytelling, and movement. Guiding audiences through transcestral memory, Coy conjures a retelling that connects to their own lived experiences of the ache and radiance of transfeminine rebirth. Excavating queer narratives from colonial materials, Coy combines experimental electronic music with virtuosic vocal performance and pre-Columbian instrumentation in an examination of the beauty found under the cover of darkness.