Flood, a collaborative work by choreographer Liss Fain, film makers Richard Kizu-Blair and Drew Takahashi and visual designer Matthew Antaky, captures the oftentimes incompatible facets of peoples' lives—the tensions between what one wants to occur and what is in fact occurring. Set to the last two sections of Louis Andriessen's 1999 opera Writing to Vermeer, the piece centers on a subtext of surface stability and calm in peoples' lives clashing with growing agitation from political unrest. The opera is about the Dutch Year of Disaster, 1672, when violent political turmoil culminated in brutal assassinations and the opening of the dykes to flood the countryside, thereby preventing a French invasion. The juxtaposition of domesticity with social/political unrest, relevant to the current world situation, is expressed through movement that becomes increasingly infused with aggression and anguish, and a full-proscenium video seen through a set that fuses the ominous with the beautiful.