El Festival Encuentro Movimientos Desplegados will feature artists from all around Latin America in dance, performance, workshops and conversation.
Special guests include Carmen Werner from Spain, Elia Arce from Costa Rica, Vicky Cortรฉs from Costa Rica, Cristina Moura from Brazil, Martha Rosiles from Mexico, Paola Lorenzana from El Salvador and Violeta Luna from Mexico and the United States. โEach of these artists,โ says Cortรฉs, who doubles as the festivalโs director, โhas distilled her own language [of movement].โ
According to Cortรฉs, performances by international artists are a rarity in Central America. Such shows, she believes have the power to bring people from different walks of life together while expanding upon the โheterogeneity of contemporary language.โ Thus one of the goals of El Festival Encuentro Movimientos Desplegados is to widen the opportunities available within the region.
[quote_center]โThe active participation of Central America will allow the opening of a dialogue from our lands, from our realities. We have proposed a platform to allows artists and people interested in the expressions from the body to transcend borders so that our performing arts can continue to grow.โ[/quote_center]
The participating artistsโ areas of interest vary from the vulnerable neighborhoods of El Salvador to a contemporary look at Mexicoโs tradition of honoring the dead. One of Lorenzanaโs pieces examines the โFragmented Womanโ in an exercise of โis an exercise in disgust, on the subject of stereotypes, all that means โrightโ and โwrong.โโ
Schedule & Pricing
Each of the following workshops will be held at the Taller Nacional de Danza and will offer participants the opportunity to sample a piece of the artistโs work while discussing each personโs artistic processes.
Tickets for can be purchased individually for โก20,000 per workshop or โก6,000 for other functions. Talks are free. A special pass with access to two workshops and six other functions is also available for $100 USD.
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- Performance
- Thursday 10 & Friday 11
- 1pm – 5pm
- Performance
- Monday 14 & Wednesday 16
- 1pm – 5pm
- Contemporary Dance
- Monday 14 & Tuesday 15
- 9am – noon
- Contemporary Dance
- Thursday 17 & Friday 18
- 10am – noon
To register or request more information, you may email Cortรฉs directly at [email protected] or find the Festival on Facebook.
Header image via Festival Encuentro Movimientos Desplegados.