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1[-1] Materiality of Exile, exhibition & performance

1[-1] Materiality of Exile, exhibition & performance
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EXHIBITION-PERFORMANCE
"1[-1]: Materiality of Exile" by visiting choreographer Ana Sanchez-Colberg on Saturday, February 22 - The Exhibition will be open to experience from 5:00-9:00 pm and the Performance will start at 7:30 pm.
In "1[-1]: Materiality of Exile," the number eleven serves as the rule to explore the relationship between notions of terrain (space) and material (time) at the site of Joshua Tree. 1[-1] exposes a dialectic between a series of oppositions (reflected in the title, the integer 11 graphed as the relationship between 1 and its absolute). Two seemingly opposites are brought together: the terrain of the desert, a place of time immemorial that exceeds human scale, and the materiality of the Latinx artist’s female ‘ageing’ body, a material bounded by time and grounded on the memorial archive contained within the layers of experience.
Both ageing and the desert define critical territories assumed to be ‘inhospitable’ for the continuation of life. The desert is associated with exile from active, social life; ageing a retirement from it. In both, the over-riding image is one of ‘degeneration’ (a de-gradation of materials dryness, slowness, brittleness, erosion, corrosion). To enter ‘desert’ (as exile) and to enter age (as retirement) is therefore akin to a process of forced migration from a sustainable life to one in a constant state of precariousness.
"1[-1]: Materiality of Exile" is the most recent in the series of works by Ana Sánchez-Colberg using prime numbers to generate compositional rules to create new forms of collaborative and participatory contemporary performance. The works defy categorization as they bring together elements of fine and visual art, audio composition, movement, photography and film, live documentation to generate site-specific works that question the relationship between art institutions, the ‘art-object’ and the subjects involved in the creation and reception.
Admission is open to the public and donation basis. There will be an open bar, serving vodka and wine, available to attendees ages 21+.
LOCATION/PARKING
The Sandbox (door next to the main entrance of Miami Theater Center). There is ample and free street parking all around MTC, as well as a free parking lot just south of the theater.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Puerto Rican choreographer, currently working in Europe and the USA. Sanchez-Colberg established Theatre enCorps in 1989. Since then, and throughout over thirty years of non-stop activity, she has produced dance and performance work in over 40 cities, with a particular focus on collaborative practices including the award winning Alice, Alice , Alice...Are you a Child or a Teetotter (1989), En Viva Voz, winner of the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award (1997) and Mahler’s Fifths, winner of the PRS/British Council Award for Dance and Music in Collaboration. Other commissioned works have been created for Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico (PR), Ballets des Staattheater Cottbus (DE), Andanza (PR), Foreign Bodies (UK), and Compania Danza 21 (CoDa21, PR). She has been a regular teacher in many important dance schools and festivals including Tanzwochen/Impulstanz Wien, International Festival of Theatre in Bogota Colombia, Festival Barranquilla Nueva Danza, Helsinki Theatre Academy, and Jacksonville University MFA Choreography at White Oaks Project.
She was course leader of the BA (Hons) Dance Theatre at LABAN (1993-1998) and course leader of the MA European Dance Theatre at Laban (2002-2005). She coordinated the MA Performance Practices and Research degree at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London from 2005-2008 and was course leader of the PhD degrees from 2006-2008. In 2009 she relocated to Athens, Greece where she now has a base. She was Professor of Choreography and Composition at the University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm 2005-2013, where she still contributes to the MA Contemporary Circus Practices. She is currently visiting professor at the Estonia Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, the Alma mater of composer Arvo Pärt. See her full profile at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Sánchez-Colberg
SUPPORT
"1[-1] Materiality of Exile" is funded in part by The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in collaboration with BoxoPROJECTS Contemporary Art at the New Frontier.
Pioneer Winter Collective's Grass Stains program, which is the project that brings Ana Sánchez-Colberg to Miami, is supported by the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.

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