Dance to the People is an open and itinerant collective that consists of dancers/movers and other collaborators (videographers, actors, scientists, photographers, architects) who work in non-hierarchical forms of art making.
We collaborate to develop content and structures of improvisation, movement research, training, and performance, by fostering the exchange of resources already present in our community. With each project we further discover innovative ways to work that move us away from a didactic process and closer to a democratic process in which performers are co-owners.
We create together because we believe revolutionary art can only manifest itself through collective processes.
We collaborate to develop content and structures of improvisation, movement research, training, and performance, by fostering the exchange of resources already present in our community. With each project we further discover innovative ways to work that move us away from a didactic process and closer to a democratic process in which performers are co-owners.
We create together because we believe revolutionary art can only manifest itself through collective processes.
March for Ayotzinapa - Dancers Unite!
Wednesday September 26, 3:00-8:30pm
Times Square (at 7:30pm)
Semillas collective FB Event
4 years ago, 43 students from a teachers college in the indigenous town of Ayotzinapa, were disappeared by Mexican police and then military. They raised their voices and their bodies to speak against injustice. Their voices got silenced since.
This crime of state has gone unpunished and unrecognized as such. Mexico's incumbent president, Enrique Peña Nieto is visiting the UN until this Wednesday. Will he get challenged for leading one of the most bloodiest presidencies of our times?
Dance To The People is joining Semillas collective's march, along with musician Ernesto Villalobos, Antonio Tizapa (father of one of the missing students) and other runners of Running for Ayotzinapa 43, members of the Marble Hill Artist Commune, members of Asociación de Mujeres Poblanas and members of the Shul Band, among other musicians and artists.
We're asking for dancers to bring their bodies into the space and use them as a form of memory and resistance (resistance to forgetting perhaps).
Antonio Tizapa shared with us last June, that he was looking around in the streets at people celebrating their graduation. His son and his son's classmates would have been graduating around this time as well.
We decided to wear graduation caps and/or gowns (if we can get them). Please email us if you're coming to the march, and if you have a graduation cap, so we can know how many people are coming and how many we need to bring.
As an alternative, just bring a red top and black pants as a sign of discontent and opposition.
We want to look united to attract the most attention as possible to this issue. But, if you know how to call attention, use your imagination.
But it's bodies in the space what matters the most. Email us and we'll send you the simple movement score we will be using.
We will be also collaborating with the musicians in the space, so we can create the magic there.
In love and solidarity
Dance to the People
Times Square (at 7:30pm)
Semillas collective FB Event
4 years ago, 43 students from a teachers college in the indigenous town of Ayotzinapa, were disappeared by Mexican police and then military. They raised their voices and their bodies to speak against injustice. Their voices got silenced since.
This crime of state has gone unpunished and unrecognized as such. Mexico's incumbent president, Enrique Peña Nieto is visiting the UN until this Wednesday. Will he get challenged for leading one of the most bloodiest presidencies of our times?
Dance To The People is joining Semillas collective's march, along with musician Ernesto Villalobos, Antonio Tizapa (father of one of the missing students) and other runners of Running for Ayotzinapa 43, members of the Marble Hill Artist Commune, members of Asociación de Mujeres Poblanas and members of the Shul Band, among other musicians and artists.
We're asking for dancers to bring their bodies into the space and use them as a form of memory and resistance (resistance to forgetting perhaps).
Antonio Tizapa shared with us last June, that he was looking around in the streets at people celebrating their graduation. His son and his son's classmates would have been graduating around this time as well.
We decided to wear graduation caps and/or gowns (if we can get them). Please email us if you're coming to the march, and if you have a graduation cap, so we can know how many people are coming and how many we need to bring.
As an alternative, just bring a red top and black pants as a sign of discontent and opposition.
We want to look united to attract the most attention as possible to this issue. But, if you know how to call attention, use your imagination.
But it's bodies in the space what matters the most. Email us and we'll send you the simple movement score we will be using.
We will be also collaborating with the musicians in the space, so we can create the magic there.
In love and solidarity
Dance to the People
fall 2018 BAX donation-based classes
September 17 - November 5 2018
BACK TO THE EVENINGS! Mondays 6:30-8pm
click here for full class calendar
This series is geared towards the professional development of dance teachers, and as a mean to offer affordable training for the dance community.
BACK TO THE EVENINGS! Mondays 6:30-8pm
click here for full class calendar
This series is geared towards the professional development of dance teachers, and as a mean to offer affordable training for the dance community.
Ogemdi Ude
Where do I get my tortillas?
Are you #latinx #sudamericanx #latinoamericanx#originarypeopleoftheamericas #pueblooriginario #inmigrante#lafronteratecruzóati #caribeñx #POC #brown #black #minority or any other #exotic breed?
Do you feel pressure to reference your race/ethnicity in your work to be recognized as a (fill the blank) artist?
Do you see a huge discrepancy in how you understand your ethnicity/race/heritage and how gatekeepers/decision makers see it?
Join us for an evening of playing with these concepts and bitch about them among understanding peers.
Fill the form to start it all
Do you feel pressure to reference your race/ethnicity in your work to be recognized as a (fill the blank) artist?
Do you see a huge discrepancy in how you understand your ethnicity/race/heritage and how gatekeepers/decision makers see it?
Join us for an evening of playing with these concepts and bitch about them among understanding peers.
Fill the form to start it all
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