Word of the Day: lucent

The word lucent has appeared in three articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 10 in “‘Where We Belong’ Review: A Performer Wonders, What’s in a Name?” by Naveen Kumar:

In “Where We Belong,” which opened at the Public Theater on Wednesday, the writer and performer Madeline Sayet tells the audience that she is named for Jeets Bodernasha (or Flying Bird), the last fluent speaker of Mohegan, a language once widely spoken by Indigenous people in the Northeast. Sayet considers the legacy of her name an immense responsibility: one that moves her to grapple not only with how words can be used to preserve her ancestry, but how they might also help others imagine a world where Indigenous people — who’ve been systemically displaced for centuries — actually belong.

… “I fly. I land,” Sayet repeats, an avian logic animating her transitions from one beat to the next. Under the direction of Mei Ann Teo, Sayet traverses a mini mountain range beneath a storm cloud of light, bare bulbs descending from a lucent swirl, in production design by Hao Bai that reflects the show’s resistance to linear momentum.

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