Performances open to the Public during Peformatica 2011.  All events are free.  Should you choose to park in the UDLAP campus please note that you will be responsible for a parking fee of 10 pesos.

Jen Stone y Megan Thompson (USA)

Where light begins

Where light begins is a structured improvisation that explores our movement responses to color. With a ritualistic beginning, dancers dressed in all white discover vibrant-colored fabric in white bags distributed throughout the space. The contrast of white versus the colors and the change of light as the sun rises or sets creates an intimate yet ever-changing experience for both the performers and the audience.

Fatima Wachowicz (Brazil)

Sintonia

(Outside as the crowd arrives)
By altering the way we use senses, dance builds herself while we move our desire for action, and what is perceived when we are attending to anything. Line - inner and outer, focused on shifting through sensing action, stillness and movement. Dance as container and generator of imagery of thought, feeling, and engaged all the time when you are aware that a situation exists, you realize or know that it exists.

Abigail Levine (USA)

Gises

Temporarily we are here, and so it becomes our space. How do we learn, share, dance, mark, remember, return this place?
(Gises 1 took place in Oaxaca in 2009).

Andréa Bergallo Snizek (Brazil)

Ruta coherente para un cuerpo impertinente

"...There is no continuity between actions, there are no pauses, no paths, no pattern, no past and no future. There is only the clamor of the disparate, fragmentary present. Everywhere there are surprises and sensations, yet nowhere is there any outcome. Nothing flows through: everything interrupts."
-John Berger

Brooke Gessay (USA)

Touch me

This piece is about the dual nature of skin and permeable boundaries in general: that they can protect and isolate us as individuals, yet also allow us to connect with one another

HeJin Jang (South Korea)

 Dis-re-pair (Dis-re-patriate) ZERO

Dis-re-pair (Dis-re-patriate) ZERO created by HeJin Jang. Music: #1 by LA Symphony, #2 created by HeJin Jang, #3 by Michael Wall
.....Take it with you even if you broke it........You will see yourself from the fragments of your mother and your motherland............You broke silence............... to disappear, disrepair and disrepatriate...............If you want to volumize your silence, you need to take your chance..................You can feel because there is an obstacle....................Because you feel, you can stand on your feet and follow.
* This is one of the seventeen versions of dance noises called "Dis-re-pair."

Julie Rothschild/Cristina Goletti (USA/Italy)

Spoken softly

By blending our rehearsal process with Alexander Technique lessons, we are investigating habitual movement patterns and personal aesthetics in relationship to that which feels new.  Our performance score is about starting, stopping and continuing in the midst of daily distractions. It is a softly spoken encounter with the intimacy of the moving self, desires, judgments, memories come and go as the dance reveals itself.

Laura Silva (México)

Raza Cósmica

We are part of a whole and each divisible part has its own value, we are part of every detail of this dream world, intellectually and physically. Someday, somewhere, we will be one.

Leilani Maciel Cabañas (México)

Atlakatl (work in progress)

Water, us, what we are made of. Our entire body holds its features: our mind, our soul, our physical body. We flow, we stagnate, we experience the courage and the changes in our different states and our endless ways of existing.

Luis Villanueva (México)

KEN or To be or not to be recyclable.

To perceive the body as second hand material, a small business that is also produced and marketed, it’s modifiable. It is hard to understand what our real need or desires are, identifying ourselves in the chain of everyday events, the theatrical showing of depersonalization, self-censorship and the denial to the ideal prototype of society, to stop belonging to the human market, stop being a marketable product, an image with a soul.

Tara Rynders & Nicole Dagesse (USA)

Home

What is a home? Where do we find and how do we create our home in new unknown places? In this new location how can I find and create a place that feels like home even in this short time frame. This exploration during this event will create the place and space for perfo

Nicole Dagesse & Tara Rynders (USA)

She Waded In Time

There are worlds within worlds. In this piece we struggle to find ourselves in an unfamiliar environment. Digging, we search for things forgotten, things lost. Burying ourselves, we call on the compression, the weight of earth against our skin to remind us who we are. This installation piece will arise from the site, calling on the layers of history that hover in the air and shimmer in memory, it cannot be predicted or repeated.

ArtSpot Producciones (USA)

Flight

Award-winning performance companies ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro present an excerpt from FLIGHT, an ensemble-generated performance that explores humankind’s enduring dream of flight and the unpredictable consequences of our ambitious pursuit of that dream. 
For FLIGHT, we devised the work through group improvisations based upon ensemble member Jeff Becker’s visual concepts.  We investigated various ways to physicalize poetically the dream, ambition, and consequences of flight.

Mirta Blostein (Argentina/México)

Women of my generation (or sixty something…)

It is a tribute to older women who broke new ground in the decades of the 60’s and 70’s of the last century.

Brennan Harvey & Xander Jeanneret (USA)

Out Of Touch

This piece focuses on the extremes of touch in dance. In one extreme lies sexually charged dance, while the opposite portrays movement without contact. What happens when two beings journey through this spectrum? Is there such a thing as a happy medium?

Nick Bryson (Ireland)

A Study in Absence/A Study in Presence.

A juggler/dancer, discloses through his performance his personal hypothesis that his daily practice of juggling and dancing is a conceptual framework in itself. It is enough! Along the way, there is a revealing of personality and an engagement with the viewer.

Zap McConnell (USA/México)

out of thin air

Continuing investigating how to work collaboratively and internationally, we gathered in November for a month, and a month before Performatica to revisit what we created together and apart. Using ourselves and our bodies to create content based on what comes to the surface as we work, we set limitations to give the work structure. no props, costumes from found clothes, and love letters that we write to each other together and apart, somehow we will create a piece "out of thin air..."

Katie Swords (USA)

Sin Título

What does it mean to be physically ideal? Katie Swords' "Perfect me" will highlight what may be considered imperfections of a woman's body while also scrutinizing the limitations of trying to obtain perfection.

Danza UDLAP (México)

Obras por confirmar

Danza UDLAP is a complement to the BA in Dance from the University of the Americas Puebla. It works as a pre-professional dance company within the educational program. As such, it offers a window into the activities and educational offerings of the UDLAP. While the company provides quality educational opportunities for students, it also provides invaluable support for student selection, publicity, and international exposure of the university as a premier educational choice.

Laura Ríos (México)

Crochet

Two performers read their wishes aloud, they transit through inner landscapes and weave an organic, dreamy and hypnotic environment.

Lance Gries (USA/México)

Etudes for an Astronaut

"Etudes for an Astronaut" is a series of short studies in solo form which poetically represent Lance Gries' search for how our body, mind and spirit are both bound to this physical reality, yet boundless in their potential for vastness.

Kate Jewett (USA)

in sensed

"in sensed" explores the channels in which we see energy in nature, how we fit into the patterns of life and how we have the ability to emulate the movement patterns of the natural world.

Brenda Leticia Mayr Villalobos (México)

Leaking Rooms

Collective creation from individual explorations and improvisation processes that reopen the particularities of each of the specific areas in a given site; using them as motivation and main focus of this choreographic work, allowing that the dancers take over the place and inhabit it in a personal manner.