Latino Notebook: Drama, dance and music coming
LULAC prepares for 80th anniversary dinner in Garden Grove
By RON GONZALES The Orange County Register
Theater: Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble beginning Friday, Feb. 13 presents "Hurricane in a Glass," about three generations of Cuban American women trapped in a Miami nursing home during a hurricane.
The work, written by Kimberly del Busto and directed by Barbara Covington, will be presented through March 7. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. The theater is at 310 W. 5th St., second floor, Santa Ana, near Broadway.
Tickets are $10-$20. For reservations, call 714-540-117 or visit www.breathoffire.org.
Musical performance and dance: Noche de Boleros, featuring trio music, will be presented by El Centro Cultural de México on Saturday, Feb. 14.
The performance takes place from 7-9 p.m. at the Yost Theater, 307 N. Spurgeon St., Santa Ana.
Performers include Música de la Agrupación and Taller Sur. Suggested donation is $3.
At the same location on Saturday at 9:30 p.m., El Centro Cultural will present a Valentine's Day "Dance of Love & Friendship," with DJs playing a variety of music, including salsa, cumbia, reggaeton and hip hop. Suggested donation is $5.
For information on both events, see www.el-centro.org.
LULAC anniversary: The League of United Latin American Citizens celebrates the 80th anniversary of its founding in 1929 with a dinner in Garden Grove.
Guest speaker is Cruz Reynoso, former California Supreme Court justice.
The dinner takes place at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 at the Garden Grove Community Center, 11300 Stanford Ave., Garden Grove.
Tickets are $75. For information, call Benny Diaz at 714-357-4328 or email bennydiaz@sbcglobal.net.
— Ron Gonzales rgonzales@ocregister.com
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Latino dance group tells history
"A Modern World: Latino Perspectives"
Hispanic dancers make their voices heard
BY RITA FELCIANO February 10, 2009
PREVIEW Walk the streets of San Francisco and look at the map of California, and you'll notice so many roads and towns with Spanish names that you'll be struck by the fact that we often take their presence for granted. Little wonder, since the Spanish, Mexicans, and other Latinos have played a major part in the Bay Area longer than many other demographic groups. Likewise Hispanic writers, painters, musicians, and dramatists have slowly but surely become part of our cultural ecology.
Dancers — partly for economic, partly for cultural reasons — have had a harder time finding a place for themselves in the patchwork tapestry that is Bay Area dance. But they are beginning to make their voices heard, not only as interpreters and performers, but as creators of their own works.
Still, when David Herrera looked around, he found a Black Choreographers Festival, a Women on the Way Festival, and a Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Festival — but no Latino festival. So "A Modern World: Latino Perspectives" is his attempt to gain visibility for choreographers of his heritage. Inspired by his mother, Herrera examines the societal role of Hispanic women in his own works, Seguimos/We Continue and Sin Vencer: Amigas y Comunidad.
In Love Beyond Body, the Brazilian-born Paco Gomes looks at how a profound desire to love can open people beyond the limits set by sex, gender, class, and religion. Jacinto Vlach, who two years ago founded her own Liberation Dance Theater, created SSL (Spanish Second Language) based on her experience as a non-Spanish-speaking Latina traveling through Central America while searching for her identity.
A MODERN WORLD: LATINO PERSPECTIVES Fri/13–Sat/14, 8 p.m., $17. The Garage, 975 Howard, SF. (415) 885-4006
Hispanic dancers make their voices heard
BY RITA FELCIANO February 10, 2009
PREVIEW Walk the streets of San Francisco and look at the map of California, and you'll notice so many roads and towns with Spanish names that you'll be struck by the fact that we often take their presence for granted. Little wonder, since the Spanish, Mexicans, and other Latinos have played a major part in the Bay Area longer than many other demographic groups. Likewise Hispanic writers, painters, musicians, and dramatists have slowly but surely become part of our cultural ecology.
Dancers — partly for economic, partly for cultural reasons — have had a harder time finding a place for themselves in the patchwork tapestry that is Bay Area dance. But they are beginning to make their voices heard, not only as interpreters and performers, but as creators of their own works.
Still, when David Herrera looked around, he found a Black Choreographers Festival, a Women on the Way Festival, and a Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Festival — but no Latino festival. So "A Modern World: Latino Perspectives" is his attempt to gain visibility for choreographers of his heritage. Inspired by his mother, Herrera examines the societal role of Hispanic women in his own works, Seguimos/We Continue and Sin Vencer: Amigas y Comunidad.
In Love Beyond Body, the Brazilian-born Paco Gomes looks at how a profound desire to love can open people beyond the limits set by sex, gender, class, and religion. Jacinto Vlach, who two years ago founded her own Liberation Dance Theater, created SSL (Spanish Second Language) based on her experience as a non-Spanish-speaking Latina traveling through Central America while searching for her identity.
A MODERN WORLD: LATINO PERSPECTIVES Fri/13–Sat/14, 8 p.m., $17. The Garage, 975 Howard, SF. (415) 885-4006
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