VCU Dance 2008-2009, in conjunction with the Latin Ballet of Virginia announces
Lecture-Demonstration with Antares Danza Contemporanea of Hermosillo, Mexico
Saturday, October 25, 2008
11:00 AM
Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen, Dance Studio
The Department of Dance and Choreography is delighted to announce that a lecture-demonstration with Antares Danza Contemporanea and Artistic Director Miguel Mancillas will be taking place Saturday, October 25 at 11:00 AM in the Dance Studio at the Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen. Dancers, students, and teachers from the Richmond community are encouraged to attend.
An independent contemporary dance company founded in Mexico in 1987, Antares Danza Contemporánea dives into the passions of the human soul to spill them over on stage. The group will perform Tu Hombro (”Your Shoulder”), the latest work by Artistic Director Miguel Mancillas, in which the metaphor of the shoulder, with three true joints and two false, translates to human behavior as portrayed through demanding physicality and intense expressiveness. Miguel Mancillas visits VCU Dance for a fall, 2008 one-week teaching residency culminating in a performance by Antares Danza Contemporanea on Friday & Saturday, October 24 & 25 at 8:00 PM at the Grace Street Theater.
Though the choreography of Antares Danza Contemporánea stems from Miguel Mancillas, the actual business of creating dance is carried out collectively by the company. The collaborative process is evident in the meshing of dance styles that melds temperaments, intelligences and instructions in one organic body. Through performance, teaching and community engagement during their residency, the unique ensemble will demonstrate their Mexican cultural heritage, individual artistic voices and unique perspectives culled from their own life experiences.
This project is funded in part by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Many thanks to the Latin Ballet of Virginia and the Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen for hosting this lecture-demonstration event.
This lecture-demonstration is free and open to the public. We hope you and your students will take this opportunity to learn about process, performance, and inter-cultural exchange from a visiting international artist.
