PUSH FOLDArtistic Director | Samuel Hobbs | Portland, Oregon USA
 
 
 
Ashley Morton and Willow Swanson perform the opening carry of 'Ozymandias' choreographed by Samuel Hobbs, premiered at the Union PDX festival in Portland, OR at the Hampton Opera Center.
 
 
 

Noche de Baile

Wagner Dance, Studio 3 - UCSD
August 27, 2024 @ 8PM

 
 

Noche de Baile

Wagner Dance, Studio 3 - UCSD

August 27, 2024 @ 8PM

Join us at UCSD's Wagner Dance Studio 3 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.

Performing Artists

Click on the names of the artists above to learn more and support their work.

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Performances (In-Person)

August 27 @ 8:00pm
 
 

VENUE & SHUTTLE INFO

Venue & Shuttle Information

Venue: Wagner Dance, Studio 3 - UCSD
9155 Mandell Weiss Ln
La Jolla, CA 92037
Ticket Info
This event is free.

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WAA Conference to Noche de Baile @ UCSD

Shuttle services to and from WAA Conference to UCSD Venue will depart from the Convention Center entrance of the Town & Country hotel and travel to the studio entrance at UCSD.

Depart: WAA to UCSD

Shuttles depart every 30 mins between 7pm - 9pm from the Town & Country.

Return: UCSD to WAA

Return shuttles depart every 30 minutes starting at 10pm from Wagner Dance, Studio 3 - UCSD until all parties have left.

 
 

ARTISTS

 
 

CONTRA-TIEMPO

www.contra-tiempo.org
About

CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company, igniting communities and awakening people to their power as artists and social change agents.

By fusing Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater, powerful text, and original music, we create electrifying and multi-modal performances that captivate and inspire—transcending traditional boundaries, and empowering diverse audiences. We take a radical approach to community engagement, intentionally involving varied audiences, cultivating dance leaders, and amplifying underrepresented stories on the concert stage. This engagement process continuously fuels our creative endeavors, ensuring our work remains vibrant and impactful.

Led by Ana Maria Alvarez, CONTRA-TIEMPO is a vibrant tapestry of professional dancers, artists, immigrants, educators, and activists, dedicated to reshaping the cultural landscape with compassion, confidence, and joy.

BOOKING: Karina Sainz | bookings@contra-tiempo.org
 
 

JÉSUS MUÑOZ FLAMENCO

www.jesusmunozflamenco.com
About

Jesús Muñoz Flamenco is a fierce transcendence of ancient rhythm and tradition, evoking deep emotion and profound artistry that is shared with audiences across the country. Artistic director, Jesús Muñoz, founded the company in 2010 in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a passion to create visceral, cutting edge Flamenco art that was in his own unique style. The company has since formed a physical, visual, and sonic vocabulary that intersects Flamenco with Latin, Jazz and Hip-hop, reflecting the experiences and backgrounds of company artists and audiences. Additionally, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco is recognized for its dedication to preserving and innovating the “por derecho” improvisational philosophy and language of Flamenco dance and music, which are its’ foundation.

Led by Jesús Muñoz, the company is deeply committed to building community through the strength and vibrance of Flamenco performance and education. In addition to creating world-class concerts, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco programs include master and introductory workshops, residencies, multi-generational and cultural outreach, and lecture demonstrations.

Showcases
  • Tue @ 8:15pm - 8:30pm
  • Wed @ 8:10pm - 8:15pm
  • September @ PAD
BOOKING: Jesús Muñoz | jesus@flamencoworks.org
 
 

PUSH/FOLD

www.pushfold.org
About

push/FOLD emerges at the intersection of physical expression and immersive abstract moodscapes. With a distinctive athletic style and piercing technical contemporary movement and partnering, push/FOLD’s work derives inspiration from Dreamtime. The company's unique approach, rooted in Visceral Movement Theory™ (VMT), combines athletics and dance (Track, Swimming, and Martial Arts, Ballet, and Contemporary Dance) with visceral biomechanics, enhancing human power in performance.

Founded in 2016 by the multidisciplinary artist and composer-choreographer Samuel Hobbs, push/FOLD fuses high caliber dance performance with education, committed to empowering communities through arts and movement education. push/FOLD’s programming includes masterclasses, workshops, outreach, dance films, and evening-length productions, and performing and teaching internationally and in the USA—featured at prominent venues and festivals, including On the Boards (Seattle) and Seattle International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival (Vancouver, BC), and FIDCDMX (Mexico City).

push/FOLD’s programs also include their annual Union PDX - Festival of Contemporary Dance, commissioning artists world-wide to teach and perform in Portland, Oregon.

Offerings
  • Evening-length Productions
  • Outreach Performances
  • Movement Masterclasses & Workshops
  • 1 to 5 Hour Movement Classes, Lectures, and Demonstrations
    • Teens - Adult
    • Elder Communities
    • General Public
    • Athletes
    • Medical Professionals
  • 2+ Day Series & Residencies
BOOKING: Samuel Hobbs | samuel@pushfold.org
 
 

YVONNE MONTOYA / SAFOS DANCE THEATRE

www.yvonnemontoya.co
About

Safos Dance Theatre was founded in 2009 by Yvonne Montoya (Nuevomexicana/Xicana) and Michele Orduña (Tohono O’Odham) to provide a space for dance artists with the aim of moving towards racial, ethnic and geographic equality in dance. Safos’ mission is to create contemporary artistic forms that reflect the common experiences of our diverse community. Focusing predominantly on Latine dance artists, Safos focuses on encouraging innovative movements and embracing the use of aesthetics and art forms unique to the Southwest to represent the cultural diversity of the US/Mexico borderlands.

Stories from Home

Stories from Home is a series of dances embodying the oral traditions of Nuevomexicano, Chicano, and Mexican American communities in the American Southwest. Choreographer and 23rd generation Nuevomexicana Yvonne Montoya and an all-Mexican American cast of dancers draw upon personal histories as well as ancestral knowledge, including stories from Montoya’s great-grandmother, grandmother, great-aunts, and father. With palpable theatricality, moving spoken word, a movement aesthetic informed by vibrant ancestral and contemporary sources, and universal themes of love, family, and home, Stories From Home brings these largely underrepresented experiences to the stage.

Offerings
  • Evening-length Performances
  • Workshops & Masterclasses
    • Storytelling
    • Writing
    • Movement & Dance
  • Lecture/Demonstrations
  • Devised choreography embodying YOUR community's story from home!
BOOKING: Yvonne Montoya | yvonne@yvonnemontoya.co
 
 

LA MEZCLA Y VANESSA SANCHEZ

www.vanessasanchez.net
About

La Mezcla is a polyrhythmic, multidisciplinary San Francisco-based dance and music ensemble rooted in Chicana, Latina and Indigenous traditions and social justice. Founded in 2015 by Dance/USA fellow Vanessa Sanchez, their work brings together Tap dance, Son Jarocho and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to bring the often unseen histories and experiences of communities of color to stages, streets and fields. Their current touring production “Pachuquísmo,” an all female Tap dance and Son Jarocho performance about Pachucas and the Zoot Suit Riots, is funded by the NEFA National Dance Production grant and received the Isadora Duncan award for Outstanding Production. Their new work “Ghostly Labor,” funded by NPN and the Hewlett Foundation, explores the legacy of labor and the joy of collective resistance in the US-Mexico borderlands. La Mezcla has been featured in Dance Magazine, on the KQED Arts series “If Cities Could Dance” and The Lincoln Center’s “Virtual Concerts for Kids.”

La Mezcla offers virtual and in-person dance classes, workshops and residencies. La Mezcla’s community engagement program creates access to the arts through quality arts education and performances, and supports artists of color through free community events and grant outreach programming.

Offerings (Virtual & In-Person)
  • Evening-length Productions
  • Outreach (Classes, Workshops, Residencies)
BOOKING: Vanessa Sanchez | lamezclasf@gmail.com
 
 

WEAVING SPIRIT FEST | CUAHTEMOC PERANDA

www.weavingspirits.com
About

Weaving Spirits features local and national Native American artists whose offerings range from traditional music to experimental performance and drag. Spring 2022 will bring the return of our live performances, workshops, and community circles. With community support we are making this regular gathering!

Curated by an intergenerational team of Two-Spirit community leaders, with cultural protocols followed towards the Rahmaytush and other Ohlone peoples of the bay. The Two-Spirits Powwow is just one powerful way Two-Spirits are reclaiming our space in the circle with vital contemporary #indigequeer voices.

“Two-Spirit” is a pan-tribal term—it is rooted in the Anishinaabe term describing such individuals: “niizh manidoowag.” This translates literally as “two spirits”- embodying both the complex feminine and the masculine in all of us.

About: Cuahtemoc Peranda

Cuahtemoc Peranda's research focuses on a critical review of the United States' House Ballroom Scene, in particular the West Coast Ballscene, and how Queer, Trans* and Two-Spirit Black, and Blackened Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere have deployed vogue as political resistance. Currently they are a Critical Dance Studies Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), and their academic studies have been supported by the U.S. Department of Education Native American Studies Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (G.A.A.N.N.) Fellowship, the Dean's Distinguished Doctoral Student Fellowship, the Max H. Gluck Arts Fellowship, the San Manuel Band of Cahuilla Indians Native Pathways Fellowship, and the UCR Dance Department Research Fellowship.

As a dancer, Peranda has performed throughout California, and has presented dance work in New York, Seattle, London, Honolulu, Berlin, Cambridge, Mexico City and Tijuana, and have had the honor to teach and lecture at UCR, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, De Anza College, Pomona College, and California State University, Sacramento and San Marcos. They walk and raise children in the West Coast Ballscenes, and they're known as "Don'Té 007," formerly of The Legendary House of Lauren, International. They hold an M.F.A. in Dance from Mills College, and a B.A. in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University. This is their first year as a lecturer for the Dance Studies Department at CSU San Marcos.

BOOKING: Javier Stell-Fresquez | javier.fresquez@gmail.com
 
 

DAVID HERRERA PERFORMANCE COMPANY

www.dhperformance.org
About

Founded in 2007, David Herrera Performance Company (DHPCo.) prides itself in providing visibility, agency, and cultural power to a diverse Latinx experience within an American context. Rich in theatricality and propelled by nuanced, visceral movement, the company makes its statement by weaving dance, storytelling/narrative, music, and media into a textured conversation between Latinx cultures and a multicultural audience.

Besides performances, DHPCo. also creates programming that enriches, impacts, and supports intersectional Latinx communities through learning opportunities and community building. The company centers Latinx and Hispanic communities in dance as creators, performers, choreographers, audience, curators, scholars, policy makers, teachers, community leaders, and students. DHPCo. works to create a cultural artistic lineage and cultivate networks from which other Latinx artists and community members can meet, learn from, and work with one another. DHPCo. is one of few predominantly Latinx focused modern dance companies in the United States.

Community Impact Programming

LatinXtensions
DHPCo. 12-month mentorship program for emerging Latinx dance artists. The program advises emerging artists in developing their professional artistic practice and capacity building focused on non-profit management skills, producing, grant writing, equity best practices, cultivating artistic networks, articulating values, and longevity.

Latinx Hispanic Dancers United (LHDU)
LHDU is an intersectional cultural community and exchange network of national working Latinx and Hispanic dance artists, educators, and administrators. The goal of LHDU is to unify Latinx dance artists across the country, provided opportunities and visibility across all sectors of the professional dance field.

Offerings
  • Evening-length Productions
  • Student Assembly Performance & Lectures
  • University Guest Speaking
  • Movement Workshops
  • Panel Moderation & Speaking
  • Cultural Equity Consultation
  • Artistic Residencies
  • Mentorships
BOOKING: David Herrera | dh@dhperformance.org
 
 

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Jésus Muñoz Flamenco
La Mezcla
 
Samuel Hobbs | Dancers: Ashley Morton & Willow Swanson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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