Death and Transcendence

Join composer Hector Armienta and two renown local dance folk artists as they explore this theme during an evening of improvisation, collaboration, and discussion. The first part of the evening will include the video premiere of the collaboration between Hector Armienta and Lidia Tlahuixaya Doniz of the Aztec dance group - Movimiento Cosmico. The second part of the evening will feature a live performance by Vidya Eashwar of the clasical indian dance group -Xpressions. Performers from both groups will also be featured during the evening.

Opera Cultura will produce a three part video series for Create TV titled “Death and Transcendence - An Artistic Exploration Across Cultures”, which will chronicle Hector Armienta’s exploration of this theme with locals artist working in traditional art forms. The premiere will take place at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in May 2010.

This project will inform Hector Armienta's work as he develops, La Muerte, part III of the music theater trilogy, Aguas Ancestrales. He is hoping to discover new ways to tell his stories through a multicultural and multidisciplinary lens.  For Opera Cultura, this project will be an opportunity to foster relationships with traditional artists from Silicon Valley that can be collaborators on future projects.

This project is made possible through support from First Act's Multiculturual Leadership Initiative program.