Blurred Borders International Dance Festival Returns May 28th and 29th
The annual national/international/local San Diego dance festival, presented by Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, and sponsored by the San Diego City College Department of Visual & Performing Arts, and World Cultures Department will happen at the Saville Theater, C Street at 14th Street, downtown San Diego, May 28 and 29, 2010 @ 8:00 PM.
Blurred Borders International Dance Festival is an annual cross-cultural event created to foster the artistic and intellectual exchange of ideas of progressive international, national and local artists. This 11th edition of Blurred Borders Festival returns with a blend of potent dance theatre and creative video dance that deals strongly with border crossings — human, age, gender, and physical borders. Featuring contemporary risk-taking choreographers whose work is fresh and powerful.
This year’s Blurred Borders festival includes the following premiere works …
Susana Szperling – Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Rosita’s Daughter” — “When I was living in New York in 1995 I performed ‘Rosita´s Daughter’. I would take the mike, dressed in a green dress and with flowers in my hand. I would talk about my far-away country and about my family. In the piece, my mother Rosita is installed in the center, as she used to do reciting poems after lunch. I dedicate here one of her favorite poems, ‘The Sweet Miracle’ by Juana de Ibarbourou.” … This work was awarded a choreography prize at the DTW New York Festival in 1995 and in other festivals in Argentina. Danced by Susana Szperling.
Collaborative Dance Theater Live – San Diego
This work brings together a number of dance theater artists who regularly research and practice the art of collaborative performance-making. Movement, sound, text, dance, image, music, costume, objects, time and space are the raw materials for creative manipulation, inventive choreography and trans-disciplinary human action. Artists Yolande Snaith, Leslie Seiters, Karen Schaffman, Mary Reich, Jess Humphrey Allyson Green, Eric Geiger, Ron Estes, Liam Clancy and Kristopher Apple.
The PGK Project, San Diego
“What Happens There” — Explores particular places in Turkey, Central Aisa, South America, and Africa, beautiful in their atmospheres, tensions and rhythms that stir personal memory and reproduce personal experiences through dance. Danced by Justin L. Viernes, Megan R. Jenkins, Cecil Pratt, Ericka Aisha Moore, Lara Segura, David Wornovitzky, and Viviana Alcazar.
Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, San Diego/Mexico
“PEELED” — Is based on interviews taken in central Mexico, Los Angles and San Diego about immigration to America and the American Dream. A deeply personal journey combining dance-theatre and film documentary. Danced by Keely Campbell, Kenna Crouch, Sarah Larson, Sammy Mitchell and Justin Viernes.
Film Series Installation Gallery:
- Patricia Rincon’s docu/dance The Myth Project: Latino Now “Landscape of Desire”
- Susana Szperling video/dance Chámame
A cultural landscape of fresh, top-notch multi-media dance-theatre, including four San Diego premieres.
Blurred Borders Dance Festival is an annual cross-cultural dance event created to foster the artistic exchange and pollination of local, national, and international artists. It is produced annually by the Patricia Rincon Dance Collective.
For more information on Blurred Borders Dance Festival or to purchase tickets, visit the Patricia Rincon Dance Collective website.
Advance/online sales: $16 General; $11 Students/Seniors (65+); $10 City College Students. At the door: $20 General; $15 Students/Seniors (65+); $10 City College Students
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