Welcome to Imagi*Nation: Part 2
Direction & Choreography by Carmen Caceres
(In collaboration with the dancers)
Co-Direction & Dramaturgy by Lauren Hlubny
Oct 21 at 7:30PM
Free with Registration
Suggested Donation of $10 - $40
Welcome to Imagi*Nation: Part 2 is a multimedia interactive performance that begins at the conflict of two fictional neighboring nations. While the audience participates in a socially distant interactive experience, the performers will enter into a series of challenges that will result in multiple possible outcomes. As the characters are searching for a way to survive, the audience will experience the motivations and consequences of migration.
This production will feature performances by Carmen Caceres, Israel Harris, Lauren Hlubny, Mallory Markham-Miller, Sofia Baeta, & Sofia Bengoa.
Understudy: Lydia Perakis
Lighting Design: Nicole Sliwinski
The evening will run approximately 60 minutes total, including a 20-minute talk-back with the artists following the performance.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CARMEN CACERES (SHE/HER) is a dance artist, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received a BA in Dance and Education at SUNY Empire State College and deepened her studies in dance, performance, and choreography at the former Merce Cunningham Studio in New York. In her native city, she graduated from the National School of Dance and has studied Dance Composition at the National University of the Arts UNA.
She has been creating and presenting dance works in Argentina and NY since 2009. In 2012 she founded DanceAction, a creative platform composed of artists from multiple disciplines, to produce performing artworks in collaboration and provide educational opportunities. DA participated in numerous festivals and performance series in New York, such as Performance Studio Open House (PSOH) at Center for Performance Research, Take Root at Green Space Studio, Open Performance for Movement Research, Under Exposed at Dixon Place, and SharedSpace at the Mark Morris Dance Center. DA has also been invited to international dance festivals in different cities. The First International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City (FIDCDMX), the International Contemporary Dance Festival and Campus “Ticino in Danza” in Ticino, Switzerland, and “Women Center Stage Festival” in New York are some of them. DA’s project, BLINDSPOT, was sponsored, in part, by the Brooklyn Arts Fund community grant, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). The company has also received the Dance/NYC Emergency COVID-19 Grant in 2020. DA was an Artist in Residence at The Center at West Park, premiering their new work Welcome to Imagi*Nation during the Virtual Residency Program in April 2021. Most recently, DA has received the City Artist Corps Grant to continue exploring this piece; Welcome to Imagi*Nation: Part 2 will premiere in the fall of 2021 at The Center at West Park.
As a performer and collaborator, Carmen has worked with artists Ines Armas, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Isabel Lewis, Jillian Peña, Lisa Parra, Elia Mrak, Jody Oberfelder, and Sarah Berges among others. Carmen also works as a dance educator and program director for different art education programs in New York City, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. www.carmencaceres.com
LAUREN HLUBNY (SHE/HER) is the NYC Artistic Director of the Franco-American company Danse Theatre Surreality (DanseTheatreSurreality.org). Hlubny's work centers image-as-metaphor, physicality, social justice, and interdisciplinary communication, and her research focuses on the intersection of movement and storytelling. Hlubny has been invited to share works in France, Italy, Seattle, San Francisco, Birmingham, Knoxville, New Orleans, Portland, and in museums nationwide, including the Dali Museum. Hlubny studies Martial Arts and Anthropology in New York City, where she works as a director who originates works at venues such as Joe’s Pub, Triskelion, The Kraine, Shetler Studios, TADA! Youth Theater, Mark Morris, and La MaMa. Fascinated by multifaceted productions, combat, and consent, Hlubny also enjoys working as a dramaturg and acting coach for choreographers, and as a choreographer for theatre and opera. Hlubny was an artist-in-residence for her piece īs, a dance-concerto this August at the Shed Seattle, and serves as co-director/dramaturg for Dance Action’s latest work Welcome to Imagi*nation directed and choreographed by Carmen Caceres.
This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.