'the gentle light that strays' explores intergenerational memory through personal research into the lineage, traditions, and learned behaviors of the performers and choreographer. The sound, arranged by Colton Dodd, combines an early 20th century Yiddish Klezmer tune with recording of Susan Sontag reading Adam Zagajewski's poem "Try to Praise the Mutilated World." The music, text, and movement are in dialogue about ancestry, trauma, healing, and what it is to remember through the body and the mind.