An interdisciplinary performance embracing culture, language, and identity, co-created by six Latin American artists from Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.After two years of exploration through solo, duet, and trio formats, the piece has evolved into a powerful ensemble work that interweaves contemporary dance, live music (including original songs), video projection, and multilingual text
Artistic Director: Marco Esccer
Assistant Director: Carla Alcántara & RCHRDY
Co-creators & Performers: Ysadora Dias, Carla Alcántara, Caro Selva, Marco Esccer, RCHRDY, and Rodrigo Flores
Music Composition & Arrangements*: Carolina Silva & RCHRDY
Projection design: TEMPO Dance & Visual Arts
“Through the work, we reconnect with our roots while confronting the nuances of privilege that allow us to live on these unceded territories. We reflect on the struggles of erasure: Why must we sacrifice parts of our identity, language, and culture to survive? What does it mean to miss a home where we no longer belong or cannot return? Amidst sorrow, there is laughter; amidst hardship, a rediscovery of joy and community.”
— Marco Esccer
Photos from STAND Festival in Vancouver, BC
THE CREATIVE JOURNEY
Aeropuertos llenos de esperanza
Produced and performed by Coastal City Ballet
Commissioned choreography
Dec 4th 2022
Choreography: Marco Esccer
Length: 14 min
Music: Text-Marco Esccer, Rain Day- Jesse Cook,Foc - Rodrigo y Gabriela, Hasta la Muerte-Hermanos Rodríguez, Te abrace en la noche - Fernando Cabrera.
Aeropuertos Llenos de Esperanza is a tribute to the unspoken struggles that migrants can feel, the silent echo that lies in many of us, the things we left behind, the memories that remain, the scars, the shame, the feeling of abandoning a part oneself.
Artists: Alice Guillot, Angela Lorenz, Anna Robinson, Alondra Romina, Brenda Goncalves, Bridget Crawford, Eduardo Sanchez, Gustavo Sanchez, Guillermo Gonzales, Izabel Pearce, Mariana Gomes, Olivia Patiakas, Roxana Flores, Karina Collins, Santiago Leudo
Movement Mentor: Isak Enquist
Mentor and artistic support: Brian Peterman
AEROPUERTOS LLENOS DE ESPERANZA
SOLO VERSION
Supported by Dance West Network
Residency: Re-centering Margins - Ancillary program
Choreographer and performer: Marco Esccer
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Mentors: Isak Enquist, Ana Maria Canizales, Aryo Khakpour
Writer: Cole Alvis | booklet of the conversation about the process—> click HERE.
Researching the intersection between queerness and migration.
Interested in developing more text that derives from movement and improvisation. Use of singing. Merging Spanish and english.
Rehearsal space: Pacific DanceArts
AGRIDULCE
A Spanglish storytelling performance that involves dance, singing and spoken word. Nostalgia merged with joy, evoking themes of migration and hope.Three voices, three suitcases and three bodies, shaping the stage into the imagery of migrants.
With Original music by Carolina Silva.
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Performed at IndieFest 2023
by Renaissance Opera
&
VINES Festival 2024
