“I quickly began thinking of the ways in which sugar as metaphor for racialized trauma was so clear… once I began working with the company and it immediately became clear that this piece was going to be about healing – that we had to look back at the past – not turn away from what was hard and also reclaim the power and resilience of black and brown people throughout these horrendous times and learn about/uplift the stories of fight back, revolt, rebellion,” Álvarez continued. “So initial inspiration was Salsa and that became the desire to understand healing and more specifically collective healing through our bodies and through our practices of our ancestral wisdoms… that live in our dance and music forms…”
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