How does an artist portray their communities? The choreographer and dancer Mariana Valencia explores this question as part of her ongoing collaboration with sound artist and musician Jazmin “Jazzy” Romero. Jacklean (in rehearsal) is a performance that incorporates improvisatory choreography, music, and language. Layering multiple artistic genres, Valencia’s words and movement and Romero’s synthesizer, guitar, and vocals create an exchange between artists and audience governed by rehearsal and play.
Valencia works through dance to reveal the individual’s role within a collective. Her practice relies on improvisation, experimental dance, and comedy grounded in a queer, Latinx sensibility. A vital voice in New York’s performance art community for over a decade, she weaves together everyday gestures with dance, drawing on cumbia, freestyle, modern, and postmodern traditions. During Jacklean (in rehearsal), Romero’s polyvocal repertoire of cumbia, punk, jazz, and electronic music functions as a soundtrack and prompt for Valencia’s movements. The two perform alone yet in tandem, continuing Valencia’s explorations of group work.
Tickets for the general public are now on sale.
Note: Tickets to the matinee performances on March 16 and March 23 include Museum admission.
Capacity for all performances is limited and advance registration is required.