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It’s mid-July. This new dance nears it’s intention to exist September 15+16, 2023. Despite being an ensemble piece leaning on my comfortability of solo, much of this process has been intangible. The e
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This new dance nears it’s intention to exist September 15+16, 2023. Despite being an ensemble piece leaning on my comfortability of solo, much of this process has been intangible. The energy of a dancer, a musician, a photographer, an idea of everyone working on this piece being from Mexico, and the Mexican community in the Twin Cities partaking under my vision has shifted elsewhere; and I into acceptance. This new state of acceptance in my artistic and personal life parallels an expression someone described me with years ago, “Still waters run deep.”. The calamity and equal force of water echoes my movement pattern like the effort in tides to gather this piece. Unable to hold it in this stage, but knowing everything is there. It will be alright. It will be. It will.
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“Desde Aquí”
September 15+16, 2023
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Red Eye Theater
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The start of National Hispanic Heritage Month. The celebration of Mexican Independence Day. Three Mexican identifying/rooted dance artists. The weight of history, identity, and intuitive (yet construct of community events) permeates this new work. Departure gave urgency to this new creation and departure challenges the tangibility right now, and inevitably thereafter. This is a dance reckoning with time.
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Lizzette Chapa (she/her) is a Mexican-American dancer and dance maker originally from The Rio Grande Valley, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Dance in 2017. She is deeply drawn to ADT’s commitment to social justice issues, radical healing, and ancestral guidance. She is a movement instructor in the Twin Cities, utilizing the principles of Yorchhā and Pilates to deepen one’s connection to self and mind body engagement. In 2020, she was a collaborator in residence led by Ananya Chatterjea at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. She is incredibly grateful for her mentors, teachers, students, ancestors, family and, most importantly, her parents and brother for their endless support and love. |
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Margaret Ogas is a dance artist based in the Twin Cities. Using an interdisciplinary approach rooted in dance and informed by Chicana cultural sensibilities, her works tell surreal everyday stories through a collage of movement, text and sound. Ogas’s choreography has been presented by the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Candy Box Dance Festival, Center for Performing Arts, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, and others. Margaret is a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She was a 2021 Naked Stages Fellow at Pillsbury House + Theatre and has received grant funding from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Margaret is a core collaborator and performer with the Taja Will Ensemble and a collaborator with Aniccha Arts. She is currently a youth instructor at Young Dance. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. |
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It’s with these dance artists that the core, texture, depth, and lines of perspective form the path of this work. We are learning, slowing, and shifting together; knowing it’s momentary.
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*José A. Luis a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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