MAY—JUNE 2014
LA-based choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez’s urban Latin dance-theater company continued its mission to embody the diversity of the Latin-American experience in Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador.
MAY—JUNE 2014
LA-based choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez’s urban Latin dance-theater company continued its mission to embody the diversity of the Latin-American experience in Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
Founded by a Cuban-American and embracing the full diversity of the Latinx experience in the US, CONTRA-TIEMPO embraced their Latin American tour just as fully. In Ecuador, the company led workshops for 100 at-risk and indigenous young people, as well as seniors over 80. In Chile, they danced in Santiago’s famous GAM theater for diverse audiences ages 5 to 85, even the blind. And in Bolivia, they learned as much as they led, studying Afro-Bolivian dance styles and hosting a roundtable on social change through dance.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
Founded by a Cuban-American and embracing the full diversity of the Latinx experience in the US, CONTRA-TIEMPO embraced their Latin American tour just as fully. In Ecuador, the company led workshops for 100 at-risk and indigenous young people, as well as seniors over 80. In Chile, they danced in Santiago’s famous GAM theater for diverse audiences ages 5 to 85, even the blind. And in Bolivia, they learned as much as they led, studying Afro-Bolivian dance styles and hosting a roundtable on social change through dance.
FROM THE TRAVEL BLOG
“As we got off the plane in Temuco, I felt a familiar sense – the wind that felt like it carried history, the crisp clean air that made my lungs tingle and the stunning view of snow peaked mountains in every direction you looked… we were in the South and I began to remember.”
—Ana Maria Alvarez on returning to South America
FROM THE TRAVEL BLOG
“As we got off the plane in Temuco, I felt a familiar sense – the wind that felt like it carried history, the crisp clean air that made my lungs tingle and the stunning view of snow peaked mountains in every direction you looked… we were in the South and I began to remember.”
—Ana Maria Alvarez on returning to South America
CONTRA-TIEMPO
CONTRA-TIEMPO
Image courtesy: Tim Agler
ABOUT THE COMPANY
CONTRA-TIEMPO is a multilingual Los Angeles-based dance company incorporating Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary styles with theater, text, and original music.
CONTRA-TIEMPO engages diverse audiences and centers stories not traditionally told on the concert stage. Company members are professional dancers, artists, immigrants, educators, activists, organizers, and movers of all types, and each member lives, expresses, and struggles within the varied political and personal landscapes that Artistic Director Ana Maria Alvarez seeks to address.
Through community engagement that is intricately connected to live performance work, CONTRA-TIEMPO creates physically intense and politically astute Urban Latin Dance Theatre that moves audiences to reimagine what is possible, and to engage communities as active participants and witnesses of arts experiences tied to their humanity.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
CONTRA-TIEMPO is a multilingual Los Angeles-based dance company incorporating Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary styles with theater, text, and original music.
CONTRA-TIEMPO engages diverse audiences and centers stories not traditionally told on the concert stage. Company members are professional dancers, artists, immigrants, educators, activists, organizers, and movers of all types, and each member lives, expresses, and struggles within the varied political and personal landscapes that Artistic Director Ana Maria Alvarez seeks to address. Through community engagement that is intricately connected to live performance work, CONTRA-TIEMPO creates physically intense and politically astute Urban Latin Dance Theatre that moves audiences to reimagine what is possible, and to engage communities as active participants and witnesses of arts experiences tied to their humanity.
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