Read about faculty member Julio Medina's work and process below!
As a cast, we are exploring themes of resilience, resistance, and restoration. In particular, we are responding to and taking inspiration from Angela Davis’ “Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric”.
When collaborating with the dancers, I give various improvisational and choreographic tasks for creation, and then we edit. I am also very transparent with the ideas generating in my mind, so the dancers have context and a goal while they create. Sometimes they create individually, in duets, or trios. I’m working with a quartet, and it’s been a really fun and intimate creative process.
I’d like for the audience to consider the term “immigrant”. I think the word itself, and the rhetoric around it, is very divisive, and supports a racist, hierarchical system that’s detrimental to our health and the advancement of the human race. I would like the audience to reconsider that word, how they use it, and how it can be used to dehumanize.
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