music: Jaime Lozano, lyrics: Nancy Cheser, performer: Barrie Kealoha Linberg

Sarah, the teacher, debates with herself about accepting the students' invitation to join them for an evening of dancing.

Dance Until the Light

music: Rachel Dean, lyrics: Nancy Cheser, performer: Keila Rosado

Teresa, an undocumented Mexican mother whose daughter remains in Mexico with her grandmother, grieves as she hears her daughter call the grandmother 'mama'.

Mama

Arriving in New York to begin their new lives, the students sing of the need to have the words to realize the dreams they hold for themselves and their families.

Turn My Feet To The Future

Arriving in New York to begin their new lives, the students sing of their dreams for the future.

Siete Punto Cinco 09.27.17

From the musical Present Perfect, music by Jaime Lozano, lyrics by Nancy Cheser. Performed by Lea Sevola

A young Hasidic woman from New York sings about the freedom she is finding just subway blocks away from the cloistered religious community where she grew up

Present Perfect, A Musical in Broken English