¡AZÚCAR! Opening Reception at Helms Bakery

Join us on Saturday, November 12th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM for the opening reception of CONTRA-TIEMPO’S gallery show and two week residency. Come help us celebrate the beginning of two powerful weeks of dancing, creating, and grounding!

During this reception, we will be screening the film CAŃA that was created in collaboration with Ana María Alvarez, Meena Murugesan and Anaïs, following with an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the collaborators of CONTRA-TIEMPO’s newest work ¡AZÚCAR! Additionally, this marks the opening of the photo exhibtiob show of CAŃA that was captured by photographer Farah Sosa. The photos will be up for viewing inside the Washington Corridor Gallery at Helms Bakery District through November 20th.

In addition to this event, join us for other events during our 2-week residency:

Sunday, November 13th, 2022, 1pm-3pm: Choreographic Lab

Saturday, November 19th, 2022 1pm-3pm: Sabor Session

Sunday, November 20th, 2022 6pm-8pm: Closing Reception

Gallery hours are from 10am-6pm on the following days: Sat. Nov. 12th, Sun. Nov. 13th, Sat. Nov. 19th & Sun. Nov. 20th

About CONTRA-TIEMPO

CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company that creates communities where all people are awakened to a sense of themselves as artists and social change agents who move through the world with compassion and confidence. 

We create a new physical, visual and sonic vocabulary that collages Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater, compelling text, and original music to bring dynamic multi-modal experiences to the concert stage.

While our performances are consistently electrifying, what sets the company apart most is our unique relationship to our own community. CONTRA-TIEMPO takes an uncompromisingly radical approach to the ways in which artists function within communities and create their work. We intentionally engage diverse audiences, cultivate dancer leaders, and center stories not traditionally heard on the concert stage, using our engagement process to inform and continuously re-fuel our creative process, and vice-versa.

This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Culver City Arts Foundation.