On a crisp January day, I hopped in the car for what would be my first in-person meeting with Jonny Flaugher, the bassist and producer I’ve been working with remotely since the start of the pandemic.

I haven’t seen a lot of films lately, let alone animated ones, so when I watched En Canto with my kids recently I was surprised by the vividness of . . . everything! The character Luisa got my attention the most.

Joshua Tree had been calling me for years, so when my friend and choreographer Sarah Bush told me she was headed there, we decided to make it the site for our first collaboration.