The Weight of a Dream - video
Genna Moroni and Christina Burchard, The Weight of a Dream, 2025. Performed by Marlie Couto. Music by Joe Berry (documentation)
February 9, 2026
ICYMI: The Weight of a Dream documentation is now available for viewing!
The Weight of a Dream was a site-responsive dance work choreographed for and inspired by the MHA Site Office in Crestwood Hills, a postwar cooperative housing experiment imagined by artists and creatives in Los Angeles. Created by choreographer Genna Moroni and filmmaker Christina Burchard, the work emerges directly from sustained research and movement development at the site, responding to its architectural form, historical weight, and social vision.
Crestwood Hills—developed by the Mutual Housing Association—was the first successful large-scale cooperative housing development in California. Its original Site Office, where architects worked to realize this ambitious experiment in collective living, became the choreographic ground for The Weight of a Dream. Now a private residence stewarded by architect, author, and historian Cory Bruckner and designer Bryony Roberts, the Site Office carries layered histories of aspiration, labor, care, and loss. More Info
