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Canceled: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group: POWER

Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group is a Brooklyn-based dance company whose mission is to create, research, develop, and present new performance work that investigates the intersections of culture and movement practices. The Company’s body-of-works draw from the spiritual and mundane traditions of Africa and its Diaspora; Fist and Heel believes in the potential of the body as a valid means for knowing. 

The company performs POWER, Reggie Wilson’s newest work.  It reimagines compelling core Shaker values, contributions, practices and histories through a postmodern American lens.

The presentation of POWER was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Hasta La Muerte: A Day of the Dead Show with Las Cafeteras and Lupita Infante

With special guest Lupita Infante

Hasta La Muerte is an enthralling new production rooted in the indigenous Mexican practice of celebrating Life and Death, universally known as Día de los Muertos. Honoring the ancestors who came before us, Hasta La Muerte is a passionate, multi-dimensional performance filled with Zapateado, dance, song, altares y flores, and featuring original and new music from Las Cafeteras. With traditional altar on stage alongside the mesmerizing beauty of Folklorico choreography, Hasta La Muerte show is a night of transcendent color and sound, a moving invitation to travel through time, rhythm, and memory.

Special guest Lupita Infante, granddaughter of Mexican ranchera singer and actor Pedro Infante, adds her voice to this special celebration performance. The GRAMMY-nominated singer is known for performing traditional mariachi, norteño and ranchera music.

This world premiere is part of UC San Diego’s Latinx History Month celebration.

Con La Invitada Especial Lupita Infante

Hasta La Muerte es una nueva y fascinante producción arraigada en la práctica indígena mexicana de celebrar la vida y la muerte, universalmente conocida como el Día de los Muertos. En honor de los ancestros que vinieron antes que nosotros, Hasta La Muerte es una presentación apasionada y multidimensional llena de zapateado, danza, canto, altares y flores.

Hasta La Muerte presentará obras originales y nuevas de Las Cafeteras, así como interpretaciones inspiradas de canciones folclóricas tradicionales, tales como “La Llorona”, “La Bruja”, “La Morena”. Con un altar tradicional en el escenario, junto con la cautivadora belleza de la coreografía folclórica, el espectáculo Hasta La Muerte será una noche de color y sonido trascendentes, una conmovedora invitación a viajar a través del tiempo, del ritmo y de los recuerdos.

La invitada especial Lupita Infante, nieta del cantante de música ranchera y actor mexicano Pedro Infante, suma su voz a esta presentación especial de celebración. La cantante nominada al GRAMMY es conocida por interpretar música tradicional de mariachi, norteña y ranchera.

Yamma Ensemble

Israel’s leading world music ensemble, Yamma Ensemble presents original contemporary Hebrew music. Staying true to the character of the Middle East, the group performs soulful, exotic music accompanied by ancient musical instruments (kopuz, duduk, hand drums) from the region. In addition, Yamma performs traditional music and material from the various Jewish diasporas—songs of the Jewish communities from Yemen, Babylon, and Sepharad,  as well as Hasidic music, with the fascinating forms and rhythms that have been preserved by generations of Jewish traditions. 

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

After touring Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest across the country for five years in over 40 live engagements, Wong’s critically acclaimed one woman show is finally captured in her first ever concert film through the dynamic direction of Michael Closson.  An unforgettable tour de force performance. 

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is Kristina Wong’s raucous and whip-smart take on the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women.  She sets out to single-handedly save them all by the end of her 80-minute film!   She fails fantastically, creating hysterical laughter and a sobering coda. It’s one hell of a roller coaster ride! But don’t worry… it’s all fiction.

 

Music for Food Concert with Ariel Quartet

Enjoy a short lunch-time concert with the award-winning Ariel Quartet. Distinguished by its virtuosic playing and impassioned interpretations, the Ariel Quartet has earned its glowing international reputation. Performing movements from Beethoven’s String Quartets No. 4, Op. 18, No. 17, Op. 74, and No. 15, Op. 132.

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Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE

UC San Diego is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project.

From histories of harm reduction and prison activism to the long-term effects of HIV medication, ENDURING CARE centers stories of collective care, mutual aid, and solidarity while pointing to the negligence of governments and non-profits. The program’s title suggests a dual meaning, honoring the perseverance and commitment of care workers yet also addressing the potential for harm from medications and healthcare providers. ENDURING CARE disrupts the assumption that an epidemic can be solved with pharmaceuticals alone, recasting community work as a lasting form of medicine.

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

An Afternoon with David Sedaris

David Sedaris, the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition, returns with the acerbic humor, social commentary, and outlandish stories that transfixed a sold-out audience at his last year’s ArtPower show. Slashing through cultural euphemisms and political correctness, he will delight the audience with twists of humor and intelligence as he shares both published stories and works-in-progress.

Come early or stick around post-performance for Sedaris’s legendary book-signing sessions. Books will be available to purchase from Warwick’s.

An Evening with Neil Gaiman

“Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him.”—Stephen King

 “I make things up and write them down” is the way Neil Gaiman describes his varied art. Today, as one of the most celebrated writers of our time, his popular and critically acclaimed works bend genres while reaching audiences of all ages. 

Much of Gaiman’s work has been adapted for visual media including movies Stardust and Coraline, as well as hit television series American Gods (Starz network); Good Omens (on Amazon Prime); and Lucifer (on Netflix), based on the DC comics character created by Gaiman in The Sandman.

Neil Gaiman will tell stories, answer questions, and in his own words “amaze, befuddle and generally delight.”

Signed books will be available for purchase through Mysterious Galaxy

Dance Camera West
MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO

One of the world’s leading dance film festivals, the Los Angeles based Dance Camera West teams up with Mexico City’s Screendance festival MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO to present a program featuring contemporary dance films from Argentina, Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, and Mexico tell moving stories from both traditional and contemporary cultures.

This film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dance Camera West’s Executive/Artistic director Kelly Hargraves and selected directors from the film, moderated by ArtPower Executive Director Jordan Peimer.

The film screening will include the following:

  • Tren azul cincuentas directed by Rocío Becerril Porras (Mexico)
  • Persistanz directed by Juan Carlos Gallego Gil (Colombia)
  • Entre Ojos directed by Stephanie Sherman, Michal Hall B. R., Melissa Castro (Mexico/USA)
  • El ciclo del viento directed by Josue Hermes y Ana del Aire (Mexico)
  • Pellejo directed by Federico M. Panizza (Argentina)
  • Wuuac directed by Alfredo Madrigal (Mexico)
  • Chapter 5 directed by Rodrigo Rocha-Campos (Brazil/Canada)
  • Excessive Bodies – Absent Bodies directed by Stéphanie Janaina (Mexico)
  • We Are On The Same Bus directed by Nuno Serrão (Portugal)
  • Escaleras sin fin directed by Margarita Bali (Argentina)