As a Brazilian born NYC dance artist, I have always straddled many cultural and aesthetic universes. I am now in the final stages of creating my new project, Getting Away with Murder that will premiere at the iconic La MaMa's Ellen Stewart theater on June 2, 3, 4, as part of La MaMa Move! 2017 Festival!
This campaign is to raise the remaining funds to pay the amazing performers in this work:
Ananda Gonzalez, India Gonzalez Patrick Gallagher, Alyssa Alpine, Gordon Lendenberger (also set designer), Mor Mendel, Peggy Gould, Tom Rawe, Jennifer Way Rawe, Peter Richards, Yvonne Rainer.
Getting Away with Murder, is the 3rd work I have made since 2013 that combines in a performance work, using dance, text, music and sets, the topical with the abstract.
1-Para-Dice, created/presented in 2013, addressed the impact colonized ideologies have had in shaping culture and knowledge.
2-Dances for Small Spaces and Friendly People, created/presented in 2015, addressed the utopian proposition that artists could transform that reality.
3-Getting Away With Murder explores if and how Western Artists have implicated themselves in constructing and supporting a myopic/exclusionary version of History.
Getting Away with Murder: has an amazing cast of dancers ranging from 23 to 70 years old, these artists dedicated their time and talent generously since January 2017. As a NYFA Movement Research Artist, I combined that residency award/commissioning fee with the rehearsal residency towards the creation of Getting Away With Murder made possible by La MaMa, to create this new work The co-support of these organizations has allowed me the space, time and partial funds to produce the work. But this campaign will cement the success of our project with $3000 for the remaining fee to pay performers.
Getting Away With Murder, examines the function the female body performs in Western art. The work considers the transgressive nature of two artists and their works bookending the 20th century, who situated themselves outside disciplinary and gender categorizations disrupting the world around them. Exploring Duchamps’ iconic “Etant Donnes” and Ana Mendieta’s “Body Tracks” series, this new work is set in an imaginary location, cutting across history, time and space, to challenge familiar equations of sex and violence perpetrated against women with a hypothetical inquiry, “If Ana Mendieta had Married Marcel Duchamp would she have ended up on the floor"?
Any amount of contribution ($5, $10, $25, $50, $100) will support the amazing work of the performers that created this work with me.
