¡AZÚCAR! Choreographic Lab at Helms Bakery

We invite you to witness our work in progress, create your own movement/theater-based work around the themes explored in the piece (ancestral healing, movement, sugar, sweetness, etc.), and share your own stories connected to the work in council circles. Council is an age-old practice that involves bringing people together in a circle to bear witness and share authentically.

 

These sessions require no previous dance experience and are open to all ages. Just bring yourself, comfortable shoes, and an open heart. Join us in building, creating, and imagining the future of this work. 

 

Spots are limited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot.

 

Learn more about ¡AZÚCAR! via this link. 

 

In addition to this event, join us for other events and our photography exhibition show of “CAÑA” by artist Farah Sosa during our 2-week residency at Helms Bakery.

Sat. November 12th 6pm-8pm: Opening Reception

Sat. November 19th 1pm-3pm: Sabor Session

Sun. November 20th 6pm-8pm: Closing Reception

 

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