Developed by Department of Dance Assistant Professors Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Alfonso Cervera, Pachanga e Poder is community-driven research incubator. The event brings together artists, activists, scholars and dancers to investigate the multiple intersections within Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean social dance forms, analyzing social dance as social justice. The incubator hosts experimentations with aesthetics, sensibilities, ontologies, ecologies and knowledges located in social dance forms that emerge from African and Latin American diasporas to consider how these intersections have emerged as and continue to foster tools for resistance, power, belonging and justice.
Between March 19-21, bodies will convene to analyze and cite connections in social, folk and spiritual dance forms from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti and Puerto Rico, digitally archive artistic experimentations and theorize the im/material spaces revealed in the practice of dancing. Invited artists/activists/scholars include Beatrice Capote, Alfonso Cervera, Dr. Colette Eloi, Carne Viva Dance Theatre (Chachi Pérez & Lazco), Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Marina Magalhães, Jade Power-Sotomayor, OSU students and more.
Join us between March 18th and 21st for workshops and events that are free and open to the public. On March 22nd, we will be hosting workshops in Sullivant Hall 390 in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies.
The incubator culminates with a public presentation on March 21st at 7:30pm in ACCAD’S Motion Lab located on the third floor of Sullivant Hall. This open community sharing invites participants to witness and share in the week’s findings, intersections, play and experimentations.
This event is funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant, with support from the OSU Department of Dance, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design Department, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Ethnic Studies and the Humanities Institute.
RSVP for one or more of the events here.
