TEXTURES OF OPACITY
Description
TEXTURES OF OPACITY
Choreography by Sanchita Sharma in collaboration with Aída Hernandez-Reyes and Lily Zapatero
In a durational encounter between two bodies and three walls, TEXTURES OF OPACITY examines how people with histories of familial migration, who deeply know what it means to be routinely monitored, measured, and controlled, devise ways to remain immeasurable, excessive, and in refusal to become legible and assimilable. It asks: Can we imagine refusal as participation, refusal as freedom, refusal as survival?
Two dancing bodies claim, test, refuse multiple identities
Their bodies create polyrhythms
Their bodies create text
They partner with the fabric, with the wall
Words in the center, Words on the wall
They breathe heavily, laughing and talking to each other
Edges, Opposites
Their bodies synchronizing and weight-bearing
Show Dates:
Thursday September 24 at 8:00pm Industry Night*
Friday September 25 at 8:00pm
Saturday September 26 at 8:00pm
Sunday September 27 at 4:00pm
Run Time: ~50 minutes
Doors: 30 minutes before the show
*Industry Night will feature an Artist Talk after the show
Location:
Crashbox
5305 Bolm Rd Unit 12
Austin, TX 78721
Parking:
Free parking in the lot and street parking is available
Tickets:
Tickets are sliding scale from $15
Discount:
Use the discount code “INDUSTRY” to get $5 off tickets for the performance on Thursday, September 24.
Use the discount code “STUDENT” to get $5 off tickets for all performances.
Please Note: To use the discount code, first enter the General Admission ticket amount and then apply the code to receive $5 off your ticket price.
Accessibility:
Please let us know of your accessibility needs during checkout.
Design:
Poster Design by Aasma Tulika
Lighting Design by Tory Borgstedte
This project is supported in part by a Nexus Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.
Meet the Artists
Sanchita Sharma, Choreographer/Producer
Sanchita Sharma is a New Delhi-born, Austin-based performing artist, choreographer, and dance scholar with a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. Her choreographic interests include dissent and the dancing body, migration and belonging, and somatic attention and improvisational dance practices. Her dances have been presented at Daredevil Arts Festival, ARCOS Presents Long-Form, Austin Dance Festival, Preheat Film Festival, Keshet Center for the Arts, Seoul International Short Film Festival, Gati Dance Forum, and Maya Dance Theatre, among others.
Aída Hernandez-Reyes, Performer
Aída Hernandez-Reyes is a freelance dancer/performer/choreographer and interdisciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas. Since receiving their BFA in dance and performance from the University of Texas at Austin, Aída has worked with, Michiyaya, Valleto, Sarah J Bartholomew, Mama Duke, Thee Gay Agenda, Andrew Schneider and Annie Saunders, Kelsey Oliver, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, ARCOS, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Performa/Dance, JKJK, and more. Aida’s creative process is inspired by a motivation to build stamina, rest, be upside down, craft and diy, appreciate the mundane, notice in it the sublime, and examine and embody their multiracial queer experience of this universe.
Lily Zapatero, Performer
Liliana (Lily) Zapatero (she/her) is a movement artist and choreographer who calls Austin, TX home. She is the co-director and producer of ZATERO Dance, and has most recently performed and collaborated with The Mysteries, Dance Waterloo, Early Era Collective, Jennifer Williams, Kate Warren, and Jessica Boone. When she is not dancing or flexing her admin skills you can find her chasing waterfalls or having a staredown with her cat.
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