NOStalgia POP
Lighting Design
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NOStalgia POP
Primera Generación Dance Collective (PGDC) Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT) |
Choreography: Alfonso Abraham Cervera, Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Patricia "Patty" Huerta (PGDC)
Sound & Video Design: Alfonso Abraham Cervera, Rosa Rodríguez-Frazier Stage Management: Maria V. Oliveira |
With eclectic, multilingual, Latinx aesthetics, Los Angeles and Riverside-based Primera Generación Dance Collective exposes "el desmadre" (the messiness) that is their first-generation Mexican American experience. Rooted in popular Latiné music, movement, and moments, their newest evening-length multimedia dance work, NOStalgia POP, pays homage and cheeky critique to the recuerdos romanticos that link Latine bodies together. A collage of '80s pop en Español, the "Latin Explosion" of the '90s, and millennial Mexican core weave together with media depictions of gente Latina. Four captivating dancers tell the story of how messy, fruitful, joyful, and painful the development of an ever-growing Latin Pop culture memory has been and the ways in which mainstream media shapes and is (re)shaped by Latine nostalgia.