DNAWORKS: March 2014

Friday, March 14, 2014

Mixed Mic at Capitol Coffee, Santa Fe, March 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Welcome to DNAWORKS' first Mixed Mic performance!
Come hear New Mexico artists perform works about mixed identity and heritage in a café atmosphere!

The performance will be followed by a community dialogue, so bring your stories to share!

Hosted by Nicole Gramlich

Performances by Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Alexis Miles, Gabe Rima, Esmé Rodriguez Vaandrager, and others!

Please arrive early as it is first come, first served!
This event is free of charge, though we do ask that you support our venue by buying something delicious to eat and yummy to drink.

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Mixed Mic is a prelude event for DNAWORKS' performance of HaMapah/The Map, March Saturday, March 22 @ 7:30pm & Sunday, March 23 @ 2:00pm at NDI-NM Dance Barns -https://www.facebook.com/events/592333860850676/?ref=br_tf

For a video excerpt of HaMapah/The Map:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJEE6DBjuA

For tickets to HaMapah/The Map:
http://www.ticketssantafe.org/tsf/event_calendar/detail/2411

HaMapah/The Map in Santa Fe, NM, March 22-23

DNAWORKS presents

HaMapah/The Map

Co-produced by New Mexico School for the Arts-

Art Institute

Saturday, March 22 @ 7:30 p.m. and

Sunday, March 23 @ 2:00 p.m.

Hosted by NDI New Mexico at the Dance Barns

1140 Alto Street, Santa Fe

Tickets: $5 K-12 students, $10 Artist/Fixed Income, $20 General Admission.
For tickets, click Tickets Santa Fe, visit the Lensic Box Office, or call (505) 988-1234.

In Hebrew, HaMapah means “the tablecloth” or “the map." HaMapah/The Mapis conceived and performed Adam McKinney (formerly of Alvin Alley American Dance Theater) and directed by Daniel Banks. First premiered in 2010,HaMapah/The Map has engaged audiences around the world and, with the gracious partnership of New Mexico School for the Arts-Art Institute and National Dance Institute-New Mexico, DNAWORKS is thrilled to present the premiere of the work in its entirety to the Santa Fe community

HaMapah/The Map weaves contemporary dance with archival material, personal interviews, Yiddish and American songs, and video set to traditional, contemporary, and classical music. In HaMapah /The Map McKinney explores issues of identity, heritage, and ancestry. As part of the program, immediately following the performance, DNAWORKS Co-Directors McKinney and Banks lead a community dialogue about the audience's relationship to the core ideas of the piece.

Conceived and performed by Adam McKinney
Directed by Daniel Banks
Lighting by Lenore Doxsee
Sound and Video editing by Michael Billow
Costume by Irina Kruzhilina

Click here for a video excerpt fromHaMapah / The Map.

Audience responses to performances of HaMapah/The Map

"I enjoyed the performance: exquisite dancing, thought-provoking and seamless integration of movement, text/song, image--so much to admire!"

"It was a really beautiful piece last night! The dance and multi-media were just superb!"

"I was so moved by the performance and the follow up last night...this was so amazingly beautiful, creative, executed and magnificent that I am lost for words."

"I think that your work is about looking within, and connecting with our body-houses, so that we can appreciate our ancestry. You are creating a pathway for people to understand how to reconnect with themselves...you provide possibility to a richer experience of one's own life...Societies can be changed this way for the better."