8-10:00 p.m.

Marjolayne Auger

Paris-Texas

Paris-Texas is the result of the encounter of argentine folklore and contemporary dance.

Jin-Wen Yu

White-Out

White Out is a solo developed and premiered by Yu in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the summer of 2011. The solo gives physical life to the quiet intensity of the human interior: Yu's movements magnify the subtleties of the inner sensibility into fluctuations of energy, generating an interaction between audience and performer that is primarily visceral.

Amanda Hamp

The Rest of Alice

This solo, based on memories of people in the performer's life, intertwines movement, text and song to gently cultivate an exchange between performer and audience, and among audience members.

Ray Eliot Schwartz

Villa de Refugio

Created as a solo proposal free to be altered and/or integrated in The Unearthing

Ruben Ornelas

Barrio Poems

A solo dance to spoken word poetry by Joaquin Zihuatanejo

Nick Bryson

Receptivity Improvisation

solo improvisation

Rachel Thorne Germond

Scarlett I Dare Ya

Scarlett is a solo that explores the concept of desire. It is part of a longer work title Look at Me that explores images of women, gender, and sexuality.

8-10:00 p.m.

Carolina Cortés Zepeda

Ensoñaciones

Based on the possibilities of the performer, framed in a space, wall intervention and the reaction to video projection that duplicates the image bi-dimentionally, this piece is seeking to redefine new concepts that justify and identify a process of –what we own- using the gaps through which new latin-american proposals emerge to the world scene.
This is the reason why the piece holds concepts of the mayan and náhuatl cosmovision, to develop a series of organic principles in the body of the performer related to the projected image. Some of them are: Nahualism, reveries, the threshold, Xipe-Tótec, the image of the snares, mirrors of water, etc. which have their description with the set images, duality, fragmentation, juxtaposition, solvents amongst others.

Zap McConnell

Small sampling of the larger piece, edited for the stage

Mariana Papaqui

Solo Esta Noche… Con Hábitos Profundos

Escena Rota Danza Contemporánea. It's about those fleeting moments and thoughts that haunt us in any of our physical and mental corners. However they feed out of our insomnia during that night. Waiting for a cup of coffee. Aerial and contemporary dance.

Sophie Shapiro

Maybe That's What It Is

Maybe That's What it Is explores the concept of age and life experience through movement, recorded text, and video. The work examines and embraces generational differences, and the effects of time on relationships. It features the voices of the performers, their contemporaries, their friends, and their fathers.

Tania Galindo Ramírez

La otra inapropiada

Work in progress, creative search. The other un-appropriable is a creative reaction to everything Mexico is going through. I'm looking to connect that part of the ancestral culture and spirit that can't be sold.
Scenic and sensory installation. Through butoh dance and kinesthetic theater.  

8-10:00 p.m.

Danielle Russo

A World Where Alarm Clocks Ring in the Morning

"a world where alarm clocks ring in the morning" is Brooklyn-based choreographer Danielle Russo's most recent work-in-progress, tackling the body split of being "in-time" versus "on-time". It is a physical deliberation of muscle memory versus photographic memory, repetition versus rendition, duration versus distortion, endurance versus exhaustion. The nostalgic dancing body couples up with live-feed video design to dually reverberate and wage traces of the fleeting "now".

Amira Ramírez

Panorama

Panorama is a multimedia art piece that is intervened with dance. It explores the oscillation between masculinity and femininity in one single body that suffers constant transformations during the piece. It tries to explain gender construction and the ways it affects the body that bears it.

Lauren Beale

Shadow Boxing

Shadow Boxing, performed by Lauren Beale, is a solo, state-based performance exploration of post partum vulnerability and the nature of being broken wide open. Through the cultivation of a deeply aware and present state of consciousness, Beale's movement, sound and text seeks to "speak" directly from the source of the wounded self.  As Shadow Boxing gives voice to the pain and the grief, it also paves the way for re-newal, re-storation and re-membering.

Beatriz Navarro y Ana Paula Camargo

b/a

b/a explores the projection of reflection conceived as the detonating nucleus of a series of events. Assuming that the body is the canvas of experience –where significance is continuously being elaborated- the main objective is to disembowel the logic of the body in movement.

*****

10-10:45 p.m.

Mayra Morales

SILK

Mobile Architectures of Endless Landscapes

En Dos Pies

Florentina

Identity is unique and irreversible, but not undeniable. Most times we do not have the ability to choose since our childhood, but we can choose to reformulate. With this premise, we take features that identify us to create a work permeated with a Mexican, religious, and Catholic aesthetic from head to toe. These characteristics are the base to show a genuine and natural movement, that even if we deny it later, it creates us and transforms our path.

David Silva

Imprevistos

impreVisto is a choreographic project that uses improvisation as its main theme. It is not about observing four solos, it is about seeing a group dancing in a random structure or a structure based in the space that they have in that specific moment. It allows a connection between the space and the performer, involving the audience members in the piece.

Sara Tolosa

Zovoksss

This choreography is about taking moods to the extreme, falling into the absurd and foolish. Repressed feelings that we hold inside instead of sharing due to prejudice.

Lou Sturm

Strumpfhosen_ Improvisation

This work is an improvisational exploration of the movement language, shared and distinct, of three dancers.

James Morrow

11

An exploration into Religious Iconography. What does it mean to transcend, to exhaust the bod/ the movement? How does semiotics play into this performance? Blurs line into religious and urban cultures...

*****

10-11:30 p.m.

JAM

1:30 p.m.

InFluxDance

Community Outreach Creation Intensive Showing

Showing of the results of the creation intensive/community project.

8-10:00 p.m.

Mauricio Nava

L.E.D. (Laboratorio de Experimentación Dancística) (Zócalo San Pedro Cholula)

It is a virtual laboratory experiment consisting of exploring and experimenting dance and the body with members of El Circo ContemporáNEO danza multidisciplinaria, and dancer volunteers, using any movement in any space. It is a laboratory run by Mauricio Nava exploring the bodily and creative capabilities of participants. It is open to any environment and is not pre-planned, but rather operates once the choreographer has analyzed the circumstances of the space. It begins and ends in a single session.

*****

Rodrigo Angoitia

Monopolite (Zócalo San Pedro Cholula)

“what if today’s fights were not just fights against political denominations, not just fights against economic dominion, but fights against identity subjection“ M. Foucault.

*****

9:15 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Leah Stein & Germaine Ingram

Other People's Children

"Other People's Children" is a collaborative, improvisatory duet by tap/percussive dancer/choreographer Germaine Ingram and contact improviser dancer/ choreographer Leah Stein that was part of a larger multi-disciplinary collaboration directed by Germaine Ingram that reflects on the practice of slavery by George and Martha Washington at the President's House in Philadelphia, America's first "white house". In "Other People's Children" Moll, nanny to Martha Washington's grandchildren, channels the centuries-old dilemma of women whose role it is to care for other people's children. In creating this duet, we, two women, one black, one white, wrestle with the problem of their unequal relationship and the injustice it is founded on. The two artists are interested in the expressive power of gesture and rhythm in both narrative and non-narrative performance.

A central theme in the duet is the idea of the “break” which Germaine identifies as a crucial principle not only in Jazz music but also in African American culture and identity. In this duet, the two artists explored considerable new territory together and looked into each other's worlds and roles - historically, personally, physically, aesthetically, culturally. This dialogue that fueled this work deepened the dance. It is our intention to perform this powerful duet with an introduction to our collaboration that focuses on integrating historical, social and political, and narrative content into the creative dance-making process.

10:30 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Musicians of Performática

An opportunity to enjoy a drink and the excellent sounds of the musicians of Performática

Results of Laboratories and Creation Intensives

Ag107

5:00 p.m.

Showings of the results of Laboratories and Creative Intensives.

Zap McConnell

The Unearthing

the UNEARTHING is a performance created this winter in charlottesville, VA. Inside a site specific installation created in collaboration with a wide range of artists, as an international exchange. Dancers and musicians from Mexico and the USA used the themes of energy, borders/exchange and unearthing the past to make this original work in the midst of a free community workshop series. Based on the themes, these workshops were led by the cast and crew to help offset the carbon foot print created by this project. Celebrating the strengthening ties between Puebla and Virgina, the UNEARTHING has come to participate in Performatica. We will reset the piece with none of the installation created in the USA and work with the current architecture present.

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