PMA Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz was selected for a residency at The MilkBar, an experimental arts center in Richmond, California. Aldape Muñoz was in residence from June 28 to July 7.
The MilkBar is a leading and invite-only lab studio for contemporary and experimental dance, music, theater, and film, dedicated to performance and media excellence. The studio offers selected artists access to their innovative technologies and new media (e.g., programmable mobile projection screens, miniature AI robots, video and sound sensors, live interactive controls).
“I am at The MilkBar for nine days with unlimited access to their technologies,” said Aldape Muñoz. “This residency is crucial for deepening the creative process for the new work Dismantling Tactic X: Fugitivity commissioned by Dance Mission Theater, in San Francisco, California, happening October 25-26. The residency will allow dedicated time for experimentation, collaboration, and refining the work’s conceptual, production, and performance elements.
“Dismantling Tactic X: Fugitivity is an experiment in the durational force of performance improvisation to challenge and shift structures of power, hierarchy, and oppression. This new dance-theater work is the latest phase of a 6-year process, in which a multidisciplinary cohort of eight national and international collaborators with NAKA Dance Theater has engaged in creative experiments, dialogues, and work-in-progress showings to instigate conversations around (il/legal) immigration, the legacy of slavery, market economies, democracy, techno-capitalism, gender, and race. The aim of this latest version of the project is to activate the collective creative power of our cohort and wider (Afro)Latino immigrant and Black communities in the San Francisco Bay.”
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