AIR

About the Show

In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these pop cultural icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Creative Team

Created and Performed by Mariana Valencia

Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann

Voiceover Sound Engineering by Jules Gimbrone

Original Song “Air” by Jazmin Romero (2020)

About the Artists

Mariana Valencia, a New York-based performer and choreographer, experiments in choreography through live performance, dance, writing, and ethnography since 2006. Valencia has toured internationally in England, Norway, Korea, Macedonia, and Serbia. Nationally, she’s held residencies at New York Live Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR). Valencia is an LMCC Extended Life grantee (2020), a Whitney Biennial artist (2019), a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient (2018), a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow (2014-15), and a Movement Research GPS/Global Practice Sharing artist (2016/17). Her work has been commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, The Whitney Museum, The Shed, The Public Theater, ISSUE Project Room, and Performance Space New York. In 2019, Valencia published two books of performance texts, Album (Wendy’s Subway) and Mariana Valencia’s Bouquet (3 Hole Press).

Supporters

AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible  through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Festival Executive Producers: Christopher & Lee Van de Velde
Festival Co-Producer: Bob Dever

About FringeArts

FringeArts is Philadelphia’s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that expands the imagination and boldly defies expectation. Our programming exposes audiences to genre-defying dance, theater, and music performances by accomplished and emerging innovators who push the boundaries of art-making and redefine the artistic landscape worldwide. The lineup for our 2019 Fringe Festival this September is now on sale at FringeArts.com.

The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is a 4-week long, city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance. Each September, the Festival explodes into every nook and cranny of Philadelphia with more than 1,000 artistically daring performances, including national and international performances curated by FringeArts, and works that are produced by independent artists and promoted by FringeArts.

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