Latinx Hybrid Contemporary Dance Class
Event Information
Description
Friday 11/15, 10-12 pm
See video excerpts!
https://youtu.be/7W2socH2MN8
Class Description:
Co-taught by members of Primera Generacion Dance Collective (LA), the artists will be teaching repertoire from their work “desmadre” (messiness) as collective embodiment. Be immersed in the signature style of an evolving Latinx contemporary dance genre including, contemporary release, Latin social dance techniques, dialogue, affect, and rasquache movement formations as a way of reveling in (un)known sites of belonging and dancing.
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Single Class $ 15
Bring a Friend: $20/for 2 people
Combo (Show+Dance Class): $35
Bio:
Primera Generación Dance Collective is a collaborative group based in Riverside, California and formed by Alfonso Cervera, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, and Patricia (Patty) Huerta that focuses on the visibilization of Mexican American corporeality through movement-based exploration, process, and performance. The collective finds its roots in experimental choreography and research that focuses on Mexican American identity and its many marginalized connections.
Photo Credit: Jonathan Godoy
Organizer Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC!)
Organizer of Latinx Hybrid Contemporary Dance Class
Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers is celebrating its 6th Annual festival featuring resistant, queer, indigenous, and hybrid choreographers of the Latinx diaspora.
With 2 weeks of performance, master classes and panel discussions, Bridges & Bones is replacing ideas of borders and walls that separate and erase Latinxs in the US, by creating cultural bridges, honoring ancestors and building artistic alliances that unify 15 dance companies over 2 weekends at Dance Mission Theater and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives(BAMPFA).
The 2019 theme BRIDGES & BONES implies the literal bridge to cross from San Francisco to the East Bay, as well as, the metaphorical bridges and alliances needed to overcome the walls that separate Latinx communities and families across local and national borders.
FLACC artists with varied experiences of intersectional Latinx identities carry the weight of cultural bridge building in the bones of their own body or felt through a lineage of our Chicanx/Latinx ancestors. Bridges & Bones offers an opportunity for FLACCistas and audiences to come together to share this weight together with a refreshing and contemporary experience of inclusion. Having a visible presence in a performance gallery, the architecture of a museum, the proscenium stage, reputable dance studios and an engaging artist discussion at one of the top universities in the state of California, FLACC is thrilled to offer dynamic new programs expanding across the Bay Bridge for 2 consecutive weeks this fall from SF to the East Bay.
