We are so excited to be a part of the 2024 San Diego Latino Film Festival! Purchase passes here!

Catch “caña” by Ana Maria Alvarez and Meena Murugesan on March 15th at 4:30pm at AMC Mission Valley - Screen 10

Sister film to our currently touring work, “¡azúcar!”, “Caña” explores ancestral wisdoms about a plant that once aided in our healing, used as a way to sweeten medicinal concoctions, now extracted, refined and used as weaponized poison. The cast and creative team of brilliant collaborators, rooted in and inspired by the sacred feminine, built the work from personal narratives of food, labor, community and explorations of 'familying' and healing as practices and brave choices.

This film was originally commissioned by the Getty Museum connecting the works of painter Nicolas Poussin with contemporary dance. In efforts to bridge Poussin’s work to today’s viewers and highlight the artistic vitality of LA’s dance community, this series of original dance films by Los Angeles-based choreographers features our very own founding artistic director Ana Maria Alvarez.