gizeh muñiz vengel
Mexicana. Movement, Teaching and Performing artist based in Chochenyo Ohlone Land.
They are devoted to the study of being a body through movement and stillness while creating creative strategies for building warmer relationships with others, and recognizing the sovereignty and personhood of the land, the waters and other beings who we coexist with.
Their dance lineage follows the work of Kathleen Hermesdorf, Sara Shelton Mann and her somatic and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy studies, as well as her ten year dance studies in different parts of Mexico, with teachers like Ángel Arámbula, Briseida López, Octavio Dagnino, Ilse Meza and Humberto Vega, among many many others amazing Mexican artists.
She has performed as a dancer and creative collaborator with NAKA Dance Theater, Kinetech Arts, estrellx supernova, Sara Shelton Mann, Larry Arrington, Kathleen Hermesdorf and Lizz Roman in the Bay Area; Silla Danza, Lux Boreal and Jess Humphrey in Tijuana/San Diego and Ocho Proyecto Gato in Mexico City to mention some.
gizeh is curator and producer of KH FRESH Festival, Performance Primers and Gatherings class series in the Bay Area, California.
They are currently an artist 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 / grisel torres is a mexican artist that has resided on Ohlone Lands all of their life. this person loves to create art around the people they love. time, earth, water, air, and the sun are consistent inspirations for GG in their paintings, lighting compositions, soundscapes, and hand made objects. you can find GG working at CounterPulse in SF’s Tenderloin neighborhood as the producing technical director.
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)