'Sweepin' the Banquette' activates the fading New Orleans tradition of 'sweepin' the banquette' (keeping a clean sidewalk' as a performance and metaphor for fractured family histories. Operating with an undercurrent of an ever-present storm and built on the filmic foundation of divisive reality, the piece repurposes a city ordinance related to the general upkeep of property fronts as a meditation on the erosion of cultural and familial tradition.