CONTRA-TIEMPO is so excited to be sharing our work as part of the WAA conference, including panels and performances! Check out our full engagement schedule below!
Monday, Aug 26 7:55-8:10pm Juried showcase of ¡azúcar!
The Town and Country Resort
500 Hotel Cir N, San Diego, CA 92108
CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater. Their multi-year project ¡azúcar! is shaped by a creative team of twenty brilliant artists and collaborators take audiences through a journey of Celia Cruz’s vibrations, unearthing history embedded in our bodies. Through ¡azúcar!, they explore 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. This courageous work is rooted in and inspired by the sacred feminine, personal narratives of food, labor, community, sabor and explorations of 'familying' and healing as practices.
Tuesday Aug 27 10-11:15am Conexiones Panel: Latine Mujeres Leadership Circle: Unlock the Chingona Within
The Town and Country Resort
500 Hotel Cir N, San Diego, CA 92108
Panelists include Ana Maria Alvarez, Karina Sainz, Yvonne Montoya. Moderated by Julianna Crespo.
Tuesday Aug 27 8-10pm Noche de Baile
UCSD Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building, Studio 3
2980 Theatre District Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
Shuttles provided. Pickups run between 6:55-8p from Town & Country to UCSD. Return service will begin at 10pm.
Join us at UCSD's dance headquarters to celebrate six sizzling Latine works for a "Night of Dance" featuring artists and companies CONTRA-TIEMPO, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, push/FOLD, Yvonne Montoya/Safos Dance Theatre, La Mezcla, and Weaving Spirits Fest’s Cuauhtemoc Peranda.
Noche de Baile is produced by CONTRA-TIEMPO in comunidad with WAA’s Conexiones, the performing artists and companies plus David Herrera Performance Co., and with gracias especiales to Karina Sainz.
joyUS justUS is an evening length participatory Activist Dance Theater experience that takes on joy as the ultimate expression of resistance. This timely work embodies stories of hope, faith, family, strength, and of course joy, collected from community participants in South Los Angeles over the course of several years, pre-pandemic. This evening length performance creates a space of joy and healing, allowing the collective “us” to feel more connected, loved, powerful, and alive.