Sept 24, 2024
UC San Diego Today
As head of UC San Diego’s dance area in the Dept of Theatre and Dance, Ana Maria Alvarez is expanding the notion of dance as a tool for imagining new futures.
Sept 6, 2024
Dance Data Project
DDP talks to Ana Maria Alvarez (Founding Artistic Director) CONTRA-TEIMPO Activist Dance Theater
We always say that community engagement and art are linked. Ana Maria further explains how our engagement with community influences and informs our work.
July 15, 2024
Dance Spirit
CONTRA-TIEMPO’s Futuro Summer Dance Intensive Prepares Future Changemakers
As the daughter of two labor union organizers, being an advocate for social change is in Ana María Alvarez’s blood. “I have been very clear pretty much my whole life that dance isn’t just something I do, but something that has the capacity to move the world and be transformational,”
Jun 27, 2024
New Haven Independent
CONTRA-TIEMPO travelled to New Haven, CT as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, where they shared “azúcar” and led various community workshops. Their engagements taught participants “about another dimension of the human spirit.”
Sept 20, 2023
NBC LA
LA theater group heals through movements of dance to Celia Cruz
In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, CONTRA-TIEMPO uses, “The power of her voice, the power of claiming space. Her grito, “azucar” became really like a battle cry for belonging and for empowerment.” Check out this expose and video about our LA premiere of ¡azúcar!
Aug 27, 2023
LA Dance review
¡azúcar! Brings Ancestral Stories to the Ford
“¡azúcar! is a triumphant work that can be enjoyed by all and honored by ancestors of our past and generations or the future.”
Aug 19, 2023
Stage and Cinema
Dance Review: ¡AZÚCAR! (CONTRA-TIEMPO, West Coast Premiere at The Ford)
In this review, read about CONTRA-TIEMPO’s newest work ¡azucar! that will have you “fully convinced that history lives in our bodies.”
Aug 14, 2023
NRPR Group
Read about the west coast premier of CONTRA-TIEMPO’s newest work ¡azucar! at The Ford Theater. A piece that “confronts the complex history of sugar and its ties to oppression while tapping into the resilience and messages from ancestors of many Latine cultures.”
February 23, 2022
CVNC
CONTRA-TIEMPO Brings Joy to a Young Audience With JoyUS JustUS
Read about CONTRA-TIEMPO brings stories of hardship, resistance, and joy to a younger audience through dance, music, and a Call to Action.
“. . .a snapshot of meaningful curriculum design for the arts.”
July 18th, 2021
NPR
FROM THE ASHES, JACOB'S PILLOW WELCOMES BACK DANCERS, AUDIENCES
Read how funder and choreographer, Ana Maria Alvarez comments on the past year and a half with COVID-19 and how CONTRA-TIEMPO utilized this time.
July 9th, 2021
The birkshire edge
DANCE REVIEW: The inexorable power of we — CONTRA-TIEMPO inspires Jacob’s Pillow
Read how CONTRA-TIEMPO calls out the ways in which people are marginalized and oppressed, as well as the ways people can resist and move into joy.
September 24th, 2020
Backstage
4 Dance Companies You Should Know
Read how CONTRA-TIEMPO and other Latine and Afro-Latine focused dance companies are shaping the contemporary performing arts landscape.
January 16th, 2020
La Opinión
La danza como un idioma para crear historias/Dance as a language to create stories
Lea la entrevista de La Opinión con la fundadora y directora artística de CONTRA-TIEMPO, Ana María Alverez, cuando la compañía celebra su 15th aniversario.
Read La Opinión’s interview with CONTRA-TIEMPO’s founder and artistic director, Ana Maria Alverez, as the company celebrates it 15th year anniversary.