CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theatre | joyUS justUS

Name: CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theatre | joyUS justUS
Start: 2024-11-22T20:30:00-07:00
Location: 9390 Mandeville Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

9390 Mandeville Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States | La Jolla, CA

joyUS justUS is an evening length participatory Activist Dance Theater experience that takes on joy as the ultimate expression of resistance. Whenever humans have survived immense hardship and injustice, prevailing with their humanity intact, the presence of joy or, the knowingness and celebration of our true beauty and power has always been at the root. joyUS justUS reclaims the dominant deficit based narrative of people of color in this country as being underprivileged, voiceless, powerless, and victimized, and flips it on its head by embodying stories of joy collected from communities of color in South Los Angeles.
Conceived and directed by Ana Maria Alvarez the piece includes choreography by Alvarez and each company member who contributed their unique ideas and richly diverse movement styles, music by Las Cafeteras, whose powerful East L.A. sound and socio-political message closely compliment our own, d. Sabela grimes, whose soundprints were the heartbeat of Agua Furiosa, Charlese Antoinette, whose costumes help our dancers radiate joy and power, Emily Orling whose altar quilts create a beautifully sacred visual environment and Tuce Yasak, whose technical direction has literally brought light to so many of our stages.