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"LAVA" is flowing at the Brooklyn Lyceum. The all-female dance ensemble is performing its new work called "We Become".

"We were looking at the importance of being yourself and being strong and supported in being yourself but also the struggles and challenges with trying to connect with people who are different from you. So you see a lot of movement in the piece that involves pushing and pulling lifting and carrying each other," said Sarah East Johnson, LAVA Founder.

Johnson, founded LAVA in 2000 with a holistic approach to movement. It's a dance company that incorporates theater and acrobats with lots of tumbling and handstands. They actually move like lava.

"I like the image of a rock that is a solid but it also behaves like a liquid. And also volcanos are both destructive and creative at the same time, and lava's strength is one that's going to be really fluid and solid simultaneously so we go with that. I also like the connection to the natural environment," said Johnson.

LAVA is based in Brooklyn and local singer songwriter Toshi Reagon just about insisted on providing the music for the new piece.

"I love collaborating with people who do things that I can't possibly do so, it's like oh I can't possibly do that, so I'm really interested to get close to it even though I can't possibly do it," said Reagon.

So as a big fan of LAVA's and Sara's, Reagon suggested several times they collaborate.

"I would say 'oh, yo we need to do something together', and Sarah ignored me. Did she talk about that, how she ignored me in her interview for like years. But I finally was like I'm not coming to anymore of your shows unless I do the music and than she was like 'okay, okay'," said Reagon.

The collaboration also includes a set design by a local artist Nancy Brooks Brody who put hundreds of pieces of metal tape on the wall. It follows the theme that there are many individual pieces which also make up a spectacular whole.

You can see the LAVA erupting at the Brooklyn Lyceum now through March 1.