Name: Y Basta Ya! The Performance of the Performance
Start: 2023-10-26T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-10-29T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Eastside Arts Alliance

Y Basta Ya! The Performance of the Performance

NAKA Dance Theater

Y Basta Ya -- Performance of the Performance

Eastside Arts Alliance

For the past seven years, NAKA Dance Theater has been engaged in a process of close artistic collaboration with the women of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), a San Francisco Bay Area grassroots Latine organization that promotes individual healing and community power. Together they have created and presented Y Basta Ya! a first-person, multi-disciplinary performance work for street corners, community centers and theater stages. The work is an intimate and personal exploration of issues of race, gender violence, and invisibility, and the individual and collective power.Now Jose Ome Mazatl and Debby Kajiyama focus the camera back on themselves to reflect on their own experiences of creating the piece. They zoom in on key artifacts, costumes and photos; zoom out in time; reflect on border-crossings and the loss of languages to create a dream-like, multimedia-infused Performance of the Performance. Each performance will begin with a workshop led by the women in the original community performance to set the stage for what you will witness. They pull the camera back to a wide shot, telling stories that didn’t make it onto the stage, reflecting on their individual and collective transformation, and dreaming about the future.Founded in 2001 by co-directors Debby Kajiyama &amp; José Ome Mazatl, NAKA Dance Theater creates experimental performance works using dance, storytelling, multimedia installations, and site-specific environments. NAKA builds partnerships with communities, engages people&#x27;s histories and folklore, and expresses experiences through accessible performances that challenge the viewer to think critically about social justice issues. NAKA brings together and creates rapport among diverse populations, encouraging dialogue and civic participation.Over the years, NAKA has collaborated with Eastside Arts Alliance. An organization of artists and community organizers of color in East Oakland and Skywatchers, an ensemble of residents from San Francisco’s Tenderloin.

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