Tag: CONTRA-TIEMPO

Following a residency that took place last winter, Panoramic Dance Project, NC State’s Academic Dance Company, is performing CONTRA-TIEMPO’s ‘Agua Furiosa’ November 16-17. Read the preview here.

During a special weeklong residency, choreographer and Artistic Director Ana Maria Alvarez works with Shenandoah Conservatory dance students to develop her newest provocative participatory work for her L.A.-based company CONTRA-TIEMPO. The work, titled joyUS, takes on joy as a revolutionary practice and features sound by d. Sabela grimes and songs by the band Las Cafeteras. Read the full…

Read the review here.

‘The N.E.A. was saved in the budget agreement hammered out in Congress this week. But the arts were not on a budget chopping block as a matter of money, of course, but as a matter of faux populism, and as the next iteration of the culture wars. The proposed arts cuts are not an austerity…

Read Jannet’s story on page 152 of the May /June 2017 issue at https://www.acs-mag.com.

‘Agua Furiosa’ examines themes of race and water through call and response, a live vocalist, fierce physicality and the performers’ own personal multicultural narratives. Audiences will walk away from ‘Agua Furiosa’ impacted and inspired to locate themselves inside the complex and transforming conversation of race in America.’ Read the full preview here.

Hillsborough Community College’s Visual and Performing Arts Series present CONTRA-TIEMPO’s Agua Furiosa on March 31st and April 1st at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre at the Ybor City Campus. Read the preview here.

[…] I introduced myself by stating that I was an undocumented child brought into the U.S. by my parents when I was 7 years old, and because of that, there was a direct connection between ‘the wall’ of buckets and the pedestal that my character stands on.  I mentioned how, ironically, when Ana Maria originally created…