Married but unhappy, Paloma and Raúl live in San Serriffe, a fictional island nation featured in the Guardian newspaper on April Fool’s Day 1977. When Paloma raises the stakes in their dogged power struggle, will she finally gain the upper hand?

Re-imagining the 18th-century Powel House in Philadelphia as an uneasy domestic space in a time of civil unrest, Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe melds history and intrigue, experimental narrative, and contemporary dance to examine how power and protest are encoded through sound and gesture—in history, in marriage, and in art.