DANCECleveland Presents Afro-Cuban-Style Activist Ensemble

Sat 10/17

DANCECleveland, northeast Ohio’s premiere dance presenting organization, moves on with its streaming fall season as it presents Los Angeles-based “activist dance theater” Contra-Tiempo. Founded in 2005 by Ana Maria Alvarez in 2005, it draws from a variety of sources: salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip hop, urban and contemporary dance theater, using its distinctive movement vocabulary to challenge oppression, injustice, racism and inequality.

The company will present Agua Furiosa, which blends ideas from Shakespeare’s The Tempestand Oya, the Afro-Cuban deity of wind and storms as it looks at race in America. Choreographed and directed by Alvarez, and created in collaboration with her company’s dancers, she draws on their diversity of body types and movement styles as well as call-and-response, storytelling and a live vocalist for a powerful and provocative evening. It’s the first time DANCECleveland has presented Contra-Tiempo

There are two ticket price and streaming options. The $20 bronze pass gives the ticket holder access for the stream for 24 hours; the $35 gold pass gives access for four full days, as well as a pre-show conversation with DANCECleveland’s Pam Young and Alvarez.

Go here to purchase passes.

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