Sabor a mi...
Performance at Movement Research Judson. May 1, 2018 with live DJ sound by Rosi from Los Angeles, CA
Lisa and Rosi / NY-LA .
Using Zoom conferencing platform, Rosi and I connect to create this performance.
The choreography is developed and improvised from proposed actions and responses, and is set to a live DJ sets played by Rosi. Here the two artists establish a dialogue, with music and movement. The two women are of different generation, but grew up in adjacent neighborhoods in Los Angeles, CA---One is afraid to leave and the other has left, but is afraid to go back. They share a common story of what it means to be Mexican-American. They speak of pride, glamour, gentrification, loss, violence, of not having choices and privilege. In their interaction of verse, music and dance the piece goes beyond portraying the specific culture they both grew up in, but rather is a permanent process of disruption of what is being defined. The solo is a piece that continuously breaks up to the sound of a memory of the Mexican-American culture becoming something bigger than the representation of an identity. Each DJ mix goes in and out of choreographed structures unfolding in complex postures, gestures and movements in an attempt to designate a specific place of origin and belonging.
Photo by Daniel Pinheiro @momentsmemoires