Dear Community,
I’m so excited to premier Piñata Dance Collective ‘Guadalajara’ ! In this video, you get to see my improvised Piñata solo followed by some quick excerpts from the other movement installations I directed… It’s truly amazing what we cooked up in less than 2 weeks of classes and rehearsals!! Because of its brief life-span, and to honor temporary art-forms, such as Piñata’s and Dance…I titled it “Temporario Contemporánea”: http://youtu.be/AE49JfniWs8 . Something about being a contemporary dancer in this day and age also requires us to work very fast with little resources. Time, I am finding is the most precious resource in making dances and our practice is grounded in the nature of impermanence. The installations you see after my solo are titled, “Piñata Trio”, “Palos”(sticks), “7 Pecados”(7 sins), “Inside-Out”(male duet) and “Colibri”(hummingbird) – all re-appropriations based off the metaphor and history of the Piñata. Imagine what I could do with 3 months! or a year! That is where funding comes into play …Read more about the philosophy of the Piñata Dance Collective
Since my visit to Mexico, I have been invited back to show my work in Puerta Vallarta, and possibly other venues in Guadalajara in 2015. Also, I am hosting a couple of dancers visiting from Guadalajara soon, at the Tamascal Art Center at the end of October. Stay tuned for more information on that upcoming showcase.
Enjoy more images of the fabulous LOCAL Piñata cast by photographer Yvonne M. Portra on my website:-) no video for that one yet!
or click here to see the images if you have scrolled down this far! 🙂 http://ymportra.smugmug.com/Dance/Liz-Boubion-Pinata/n-LL9wk/
*Happy September holy days and scholastic initiations*
Love, Liz
Marco Polo with Liz and Cuauhtemoc, photo credit Yvonne M. Portra
