For Immediate Release: February 2023
Contact: Jasmine Stanley | 213-239-4348 | stanley@contra-tiempo.org
Liza Wade Green | 919-513-7155 | lwgreen@ncsu.edu
CONTRA-TIEMPO Premiere of ¡AZÚCAR! at NC State LIVE
Raleigh, NC, March 31, 2023, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater in partnership with NC State LIVE, presents a creative residency to gather the local community together in a celebration of love, resistance, and radical joy.
¡AZÙCAR! is a courageous naming of and intentional obliteration of the undercurrent and often unspoken anti-blackness in latinidad. This piece, performed by CONTRA-TIEMPO, is embodied through the practice and sharing of our Afro-Latine ancestral movement and vibrational technologies. Questions are continuing to drive the process as we begin to understand the complicated history of sugar and the messages from our ancestors. What would it look like to exist in a world that centered nourishment, care and rooted in the body? How does Celia's belting out “¡Azúcar!” set us all a little more free? Can we reckon with our past without losing ourselves in the fight? Does it have to be a fight? Is there space for grace? What does it feel like to individually and collectively heal, what does it move like? The evening-length performance of ¡AZÚCAR! shares stories of sugar as a harmful system of oppression, reveres the sacred caretakers of ancestral resiliency, and elevates the rise of our human spirits in ruptures of rhythm, music, and dance.
Who: CONTRA-TIEMPO and NC State Live
at The Stewart Theater
What: ¡AZÚCAR! World Premiere
When: Performance: Friday 3/31 at 8pm
Where: Stewart Theatre, Talley Student Union
2610 Cates Ave, Raleigh, NC 27695
Parking: Reynolds Coliseum Parking Deck
Jeter Drive Parking lot
Carmicheal gym parking lot
Website: www.contra-tiempo.org ; https://live.arts.ncsu.edu/
This work was commissioned by NC State LIVE as part of the 50th anniversary season. Further support was provided by the MAPfund, National Endowment of the Arts, Arts Forward, Culver City Arts Foundation, and NEFA.
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Information about the collaborators and performers working on the larger scope of ¡AZÚCAR! can be found on our website.