World Premiere
Friday, August 2, 2024, 6:00pm
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 5:00pm - ASL
Curious Creator: 30 minutes
ODC Theater
Interdisciplinary Performance Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña has a long-standing history of collaborating with dancers and choreographers including La Ribot (Spain), Marecela Levi (Brazil), Sara Shelton Mann (San Francisco), and Michelle Ceballos (Colombia). These experimental collaborations explore the interactions and tensions between contemporary dance and performance art; young and aging bodies. Spoken Choreographies is a collaboration between Gómez-Peña and Mexican choreographer and dancer Pita Zapot to continue to explore this realm.
About the artist
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the "road". His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. His artwork has been presented at over one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, USA Artists Fellow, and a Bessie, Guggenheim, and American Book Award recipient, he is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT), the Venice Performance Art Week Journal, and emisférica, the publication of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU). Gómez-Peña is currently a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, and a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
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About the Theater
ODC Theater exists to empower and develop innovative artists. It participates in the creation of new works through commissioning, presenting, mentorship and space access; it develops informed, engaged and committed audiences; and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component to the economic and cultural development of our community. This 170-seat venue is the site of over 150 performances a year involving nearly 1,000 local, regional, national and international artists.
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