Moonwork Two

Thursday, Sept 7; 7:30pm

Peter and Paul Performance Space

A site adaptive solo considering the affects of nostalgia be it harmful or helpful.

No sé Quién Soy

Thursday, Sept 7; 7:30pm

Peter and Paul Performance Space

The piece invites you to enter the disturbed psyche of a woman trapped in time, the one who travels through childhood memories and the fears that torment her, wandering between real and fictional thoughts, creating imaginary friends and enemies; establishing delusional relationships with objects, space and their own corporality.

Animal

Thursday, Sept 7; 7:30pm

Peter and Paul Performance Space

Animal is a study for an evening-length solo called "an animal dance," in which I ask audiences to co-construct a darkly comic dreamscape inquiring into the vernacular of the human animal. The study, lasting approximately ten minutes, is set to the last movement of Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 50, and unspools a rendering of our animal trajectory.

IYA-ORISHA (Excerpt Revised)

Friday, Sept 8; 7:30pm

New Marigny Theatre

Originally composed of seven dancers of Dow-Dance Company, IYA-ORISHA explores the way past, present, and future divinities in West African spirituality can be transmitted into daily life within American society. Composed of traditional dance language excavated by Artistic Director Caleb Dowden through her Fulbright research in Benin, West Africa, IYA-ORISHA serves as a new language vocabulary by Dow-Dance Company based on principles of trance and mediation, grounded by various traditional dances of Southern Coastal Benin Republic.

IYA-ORISHA (Excerpt Revised)

Friday, Sept 8; 7:30pm

New Marigny Theatre

Originally composed of seven dancers of Dow-Dance Company, IYA-ORISHA explores the way past, present, and future divinities in West African spirituality can be transmitted into daily life within American society. Composed of traditional dance language excavated by Artistic Director Caleb Dowden through her Fulbright research in Benin, West Africa, IYA-ORISHA serves as a new language vocabulary by Dow-Dance Company based on principles of trance and mediation, grounded by various traditional dances of Southern Coastal Benin Republic.

Excerpt from Siddhartha, an opera in three acts

Friday, September 8; 7:30pm

New Marigny Theatre

Siddhartha is an experimental opera conceived and directed by Zachary Pine and derived from the novel by Herman Hesse. Themes of self-discovery, the search for meaning, and the complexities of human desires intertwine, inviting the audience to reflect on their own quests for truth.

bisTEKoNaGReGaO…una canción de amor para el mundo

Friday Sept 8; 7:30pm

New Marigny Theatre

From the crossroads between performance, contemporary dance, concerts and popular culture, Alvarez investigates love and pathetic situations of lack of love, taking elements of daily life exacerbated in a fun and profound way.

ORI: Journey Within

Kai Knight’s Dance Theatre Collective

Saturday, Sept 9; 7:30pm

André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

ORI, The Journey Within, depicts the journey to one's spiritual center expressed through movement. It highlights the desire for balance through obtaining an alignment with Creator and self to fulfill divine purpose. This performance piece utilizes contemporary and Afro-modern dance forms displaying the body's natural and ancestral language to convey the movements of its spirit.

Chango

Saturday, Sept 9; 7:30pm

André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

It is a one-person piece that proposes an interdisciplinary journey between dance, music and the arts visuals to claim the territory of Valparaíso and its native Chango people, devastated by the genocide, the industrialization of the territory and the invisibility of its worldview.

The work is composed live and proposes a pictorial journey that invites to awaken the memory and the senses of the spectator, provoking a psychedelic and musical environment that enhances dance to communicate powerfully, energy and subtlety a sensory and bodily state that travels to the seed of your own identity.

Gay Portrait #2

Saturday, Sept 9; 7:30pm

André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

Gay Portrait #2 is a glimpse into how one man’s gayness was built from pop culture, fear, and a drive to stay true to himself.

Sintética. Vivir sin lágrimas.

Saturday, Sept 9; 7:30pm

André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice