gizeh muñiz vengel
Movement, Teaching and Performing artist. Mexicana, currently co-existing in Ohlone territory.
They are dedicated to the study of being a body, through movement and stillness.
Her choreographic work responds to processes of grief and joy, with an arduous commitment to transformation and presence
They recreate body stories through touch, relationship and movement that refine our attention and listening toward mastery of the art of being fully present in proximity and relationship with others.
Through her work, she creates spaces that allow them to play and divest from concepts of linearity in a creative process, with the intention of practicing freedom, and explore new paradigms of temporality, relationality and intimacy.
They insist on the importance of “thinking with the whole body” to imagine possibilities where their identity is not tokenized, but rather a departure point for experimentation, exploration and dance- making.
Her choreographic and teaching work has been shared in the United States, Mexico and Europe in festivals such as Improspeckje in Croatia, GUSH in San Francisco and 4×4 in Tijuana, to mention some.
gizeh is currently an artist in residency at CounterPulse, PUSH, BANDALOOP and in The Community Engagement Residency with Bridge Live Arts, and the 2023-25 Radiate fellow of RAWdance. gizeh is curator and producer of KH FRESH Festival, Performance Primers and Gatherings class series in the Bay Area.
They are currently in residency at Counterpulse @counterpulse and in The Community Engagement Residency with Bridge Live Arts, and the 2023-2024 RAW Fellowship recipient.
About this Project
auiga
As we intend to create a new way of being with each other, we call ourselves into the vital presence of the world and into a deep and attentive presence with one another
We rest and stay quiet to listen
Speaking in movement and rhythm,we vocalize a language that praises the long tides of the ocean, and polyrhythmic pulse of this place
We wonder
Our breathing bodies yield to gravity as a stuttering desire to feel the mutual attraction between our bodies and the land
We arrive
This piece is a poem that contains us to daydream together.
Collaborators:
grisel gg torres
gg torres is a mexican artist born and based on Ohlone Territory. As a sound and lighting artist, she has worked mainly for movement-based theatre works. GG enjoys every opportunity to explore improvisational scores and seeks to compliment whatever poetic dichotomy that is longing to be found. artistically, she is held by tight-knit ancestral relatives, a subjugated and hungry earth, queers that push back, the special orbs above us, shadows, Aretha Franklin, and the mise-en-scène of every living moment. GG is currently serving as the Producing Technical Director at the San Francisco experimental dance venue CounterPulse (FKA 848 Performance Space) . You can also hear GG’s sound works in collaboration with cellist transcriptions01 in the sound bath series Resting Between the Waveforms and Coraiñia, an improvisational concert alongside Stephanie Hewett and Tyler Holmes. GG is excited and honored to return to the stage with Gizeh and Ernesto, we hope you rest.
Ernesto Peart
Contemporary dancer and performer originally from Saltillo, México. Interested in the search for new forms and ways of expressing. His work focuses on movement research and collaboration.
He has collaborated as a dancer and performer with international choreographers and groups like Damien Jalet (Belgium), Kaori Seki (Japan) Martha Hincapié (Germany), Vladimir Rodríguez (Colombia), Gilberto González (México) y Leandro Kess (Argentina) amongst others. He graduated from the Mazatlan Professional School of Dance in 2011 and has worked with companies such as Delfos Danza and CEPRODAC touring in America, South America, Europe and Asia.
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June 6/7/8
(Thu/Fr 8p; Sat 2p)
June 13/14/15
(Thu/Fr 8p; Sat 2p)