Saturdays and Sundays, March 16-24, 8pm
Dance Up Close/East Bay and Rogelio Lopez & Dancers presents the world premiere of Dicotomia del Silencio, an evening length contemporary modern dance performance in Berkeley, California. Through poignant and virtuosic movement, original live music, and innovative lighting, this haunting, otherworldly new work collides into the unspoken and dangerous corners of the memories of a challenging childhood. Catholic prayer, toy trucks, scissors, velcro and kisses help illuminate what can stay silent no longer.
Local composer and musician David Franklin has created an original score and accompanies live the work of ensemble members Kevin Gaytan, Rebecca Johnson, Andrew Merrell, and Alexandra Whaley and soloist Rogelio Lopez. Dicotomia del Silencio is a movement poem, penned by Rogelio Lopez, baring his unapologetic truth.
Rogelio Lopez & Dancers (RL&D) is a modern dance company established in 2015. RL&D believes that dance speaks a universal language that pulls at the core of human existence. By letting the body speak, we create a "body literacy" that generates a real and present connection between people.
RL&D seeks to spread this "body literacy" within and beyond the Bay Area borders, by actively being involved in this local, growing, and vibrant dance art scene. RL&D heralds the importance of the individual voice, and that when shared and filtered through integral craft, has a universally binding significance. Rogelio Lopez has a Queer, Mexican-American, "lower class background" voice, that neither denies, nor engulfs, the person and artist that he is.
Through Rogelio Lopez's particular use of the embodied dancer, a spacious, weighted, unaffected-virtuosity of disarming dance comes through and has the capability to transform.
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Dance Up Close/East Bay and Rogelio Lopez & Dancers presents the world premiere of Dicotomia del Silencio, an evening length contemporary modern dance performance in Berkeley, California. Through poignant and virtuosic movement, original live music, and innovative lighting, this haunting, otherworldly new work collides into the unspoken and dangerous corners of the memories of a challenging childhood. Catholic prayer, toy trucks, scissors, velcro and kisses help illuminate what can stay silent no longer.
Local composer and musician David Franklin has created an original score and accompanies live the work of ensemble members Kevin Gaytan, Rebecca Johnson, Andrew Merrell, and Alexandra Whaley and soloist Rogelio Lopez. Dicotomia del Silencio is a movement poem, penned by Rogelio Lopez, baring his unapologetic truth.
Rogelio Lopez & Dancers (RL&D) is a modern dance company established in 2015. RL&D believes that dance speaks a universal language that pulls at the core of human existence. By letting the body speak, we create a "body literacy" that generates a real and present connection between people.
RL&D seeks to spread this "body literacy" within and beyond the Bay Area borders, by actively being involved in this local, growing, and vibrant dance art scene. RL&D heralds the importance of the individual voice, and that when shared and filtered through integral craft, has a universally binding significance. Rogelio Lopez has a Queer, Mexican-American, "lower class background" voice, that neither denies, nor engulfs, the person and artist that he is.
Through Rogelio Lopez's particular use of the embodied dancer, a spacious, weighted, unaffected-virtuosity of disarming dance comes through and has the capability to transform.
Saturdays and Sundays, March 16-24, 8pm
Dance Up Close/East Bay and Rogelio Lopez & Dancers presents the world premiere of Dicotomia del Silencio, an evening length contemporary modern dance performance in Berkeley, California. Through poignant and virtuosic movement, original live music, and innovative lighting, this haunting, otherworldly new work collides into the unspoken and dangerous corners of the memories of a challenging childhood. Catholic prayer, toy trucks, scissors, velcro and kisses help illuminate what can stay silent no longer.
Local composer and musician David Franklin has created an original score and accompanies live the work of ensemble members Kevin Gaytan, Rebecca Johnson, Andrew Merrell, and Alexandra Whaley and soloist Rogelio Lopez. Dicotomia del Silencio is a movement poem, penned by Rogelio Lopez, baring his unapologetic truth.
Rogelio Lopez & Dancers (RL&D) is a modern dance company established in 2015. RL&D believes that dance speaks a universal language that pulls at the core of human existence. By letting the body speak, we create a "body literacy" that generates a real and present connection between people.
RL&D seeks to spread this "body literacy" within and beyond the Bay Area borders, by actively being involved in this local, growing, and vibrant dance art scene. RL&D heralds the importance of the individual voice, and that when shared and filtered through integral craft, has a universally binding significance. Rogelio Lopez has a Queer, Mexican-American, "lower class background" voice, that neither denies, nor engulfs, the person and artist that he is.
Through Rogelio Lopez's particular use of the embodied dancer, a spacious, weighted, unaffected-virtuosity of disarming dance comes through and has the capability to transform.
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Dance Up Close/East Bay and Rogelio Lopez & Dancers presents the world premiere of Dicotomia del Silencio, an evening length contemporary modern dance performance in Berkeley, California. Through poignant and virtuosic movement, original live music, and innovative lighting, this haunting, otherworldly new work collides into the unspoken and dangerous corners of the memories of a challenging childhood. Catholic prayer, toy trucks, scissors, velcro and kisses help illuminate what can stay silent no longer.
Local composer and musician David Franklin has created an original score and accompanies live the work of ensemble members Kevin Gaytan, Rebecca Johnson, Andrew Merrell, and Alexandra Whaley and soloist Rogelio Lopez. Dicotomia del Silencio is a movement poem, penned by Rogelio Lopez, baring his unapologetic truth.
Rogelio Lopez & Dancers (RL&D) is a modern dance company established in 2015. RL&D believes that dance speaks a universal language that pulls at the core of human existence. By letting the body speak, we create a "body literacy" that generates a real and present connection between people.
RL&D seeks to spread this "body literacy" within and beyond the Bay Area borders, by actively being involved in this local, growing, and vibrant dance art scene. RL&D heralds the importance of the individual voice, and that when shared and filtered through integral craft, has a universally binding significance. Rogelio Lopez has a Queer, Mexican-American, "lower class background" voice, that neither denies, nor engulfs, the person and artist that he is.
Through Rogelio Lopez's particular use of the embodied dancer, a spacious, weighted, unaffected-virtuosity of disarming dance comes through and has the capability to transform.
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2704 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705
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