We’re going to Cornell University in New York to present a touring version of the project and to work with immigrant women in the Ithaca area. We know that there is no better lucha than to keep walking, creating, and connecting with other grassroots communities.
We’re traveling to Los Angeles to perform two shows in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in celebration of International Women's Day and in support of tenants' rights, thanks to our friends from Unión de Vecinos.
We’re traveling to Los Angeles to perform two shows in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in celebration of International Women's Day and in support of tenants' rights, thanks to our friends from Unión de Vecinos.
Jody Stillwater’s short documentary film Y Basta Ya!/Enough! highlights the stories of several grassroots immigrant women who work as caretakers/domestic workers in the Bay Area, and also have performed with NAKA Dance Theater.
CANCELLED IN SUPPORT OF BOYCOTT - Jody Stillwater’s short documentary film Y Basta Ya!/Enough! highlights the stories of several grassroots immigrant women who work as caretakers/domestic workers in the Bay Area, and also have performed with NAKA Dance Theater.
CANCELLED IN SUPPORT OF BOYCOT — Join us for a dynamic afternoon of dance performances exploring the experiences of migration and immigration. Shaped as “choreopoems,” the pieces explore border crossing, sanctuary cities, and lived experience by sharing personal stories and narratives through choreography and sound.
CANCELLED IN SUPPORT OF BOYCOTT - Watch a film screening of NAKA Dance Theater’s seminal work The Anastasio Project (2015), followed by a conversation with artists from the project.
Now Jose Ome Mazatl and Debby Kajiyama focus the camera back on themselves to reflect on their own experiences of creating the piece. They zoom in on key artifacts, costumes and photos; zoom out in time; reflect on border-crossings and the loss of languages to create a dream-like, multimedia-infused Performance of the Performance.
NAKA Dance Theater y Mujeres Unidas y Activas les invitan cordialmente a la celebración del grupo de Telares Maya Mam!
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Join NAKA Dance Theater and Mujeres Unidas y Activas for a celebration with our Indigenous Maya Mam Weaving Circle participants!
MU-칠성새남굿 Chilseong Saenamgut (Duringut)
Ritual contra Las Enfermedades
Obra creada por la galardonada artista de artes tradicionales y contemporáneas Dohee Lee, directora artística de Puri Arts, como una acción ritual performática inspirada en los rituales sagrados de la ciudad natal de la artista, la isla de Jeju, en Corea. La ceremonia está acompañada por tres percusionistas y cantantes creando así, un altar público. Proyecto que continúa la exploración de las representaciones rituales que comenzó en 2004.
La reconocida artista multidisciplinaria coreana Dohee Lee impartirá un taller intensivo de tres días en Tepoztlán, Morelos combinando artes escénicas y su práctica cultural coreana en danza, voz, percusión y ritual, y el proceso artístico-curativo del Instituto Tamalpa de la legendaria Anna Halprin en California.
Join us for a presentation of Performance of the Performance: Y Basta Ya! As part of our residency at Rosy Simas Danse’s 331 Space.
NAKA Dance Theater’s José Ome and Debby will reflect on the creative process and why they were inspired to create Y Basta Ya! In collaboration with the women of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA). The performance will feature performances by two women, Sarita and Maria, originally from Guatemala, who perform their stories through movement, storytelling, art objects and dance.
Indigenous Roots and NAKA Dance Theater invite you to a community gathering with food and performance excerpts of Y Basta Ya!
Our intention is to cultivate a space where community members take ownership of the poetic representation of their own stories. We are thrilled to be partnering with Indigenous Roots in St. Paul, MN and Angelica Bello’s Circulo de Mamitas to host performances and sharing events between.
Join us for a work-in-progress showing and community gathering to support the Performance of the Performance: Y Basta Ya! NAKA Dance Theater’s José Ome and Debby will reflect on the creative process and why they were inspired to create Y Basta Ya! In collaboration with the women of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA).
Los pueblos se organizan y luchan. Eso lo sabemos y lo hemos visto a lo largo de estas charlas. Sin embargo, el desafío mayor es el de la unidad y la coordinación de las distintas formas de resistir. ¿Cómo logramos que el dolor de las madres que buscan a sus hijos se una con el coraje de quienes hemos sido despojados de nuestras tierras, nuestro trabajo, nuestros sueños?
International Dance Day
CUERPO-RESISTENCIA
(LA OTRA DANZA)
Dia Internacional de La Danza
A Casa Tecmilco: Tepoztlán, Morelos, México.
The D.I.R.T. Festival, or Dance In Revolt(ing) Times, is a social political dance festival presenting artists whose work explicitly addresses local/global challenges through their creative process.
NAKA Dance Theater with MUA will be performing Y Basta Ya!
Y Basta Ya! (Enough!) is a first-person performance created in collaboration with members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas. Mujeres Unidas y Activas is a 30-year old grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power.
NAKA Dance Theater and Ohlone College present: Labor Rights and the Experiences of Latina Immigrant Women
Join us for a conversation with three powerful women leaders who have transformed their communities by advocating for labor rights for domestic workers.
Desde hace más de 20 años en México se lleva a cabo una guerra contra la población. Enmascarada detrás de “la guerra contra el narcotráfico” la estrategia del Estado mexicano -siguiendo directivas de los distintos gobiernos norteamericanos- ha sigo utilizar las fuerzas militares y paramilitares para sembrar el terror en la población e intentar exterminar todas las formas de resistencia y lazos sociales que unen a las comunidades y pueblos. Hoy en día México tiene cifras de guerra: más de 100mil personas desaparecidas, varios millones asesinados y actualmente se ha militarizado la seguridad y la vida pública.
Dismantling Tactic X is a set of performative actions that unveil the ways in which racism and white supremacy operate in our towns and communities. We use dance, percussion and spoken word and song to place the devastating reality of the hegemonic system at the center, in order to dismantle and radically transform it.
LIVE ARTS IN RESISTANCE / Eastside Arts Alliance, NAKA Dance Theater and Puri Arts present…
칠성 새남굿- Chilseong SaenamGut (Duringut): Ritual for Sickness
Dohee Lee calls upon “Chilseong Saenamgut,” a ritual for sickness, illness and destruction from Jeju Island, her hometown, in order to confront and heal. This ritual is for facing and naming challenges, for purging destructive and monstrous spirits (Heomaengyee-허맹이 *), white supremacy and patriarchal culture and inviting back vital spirits (Chilseong-칠성신 **).
Join us for our first Community Art Festival, Que Vivan los Muertos!! We will celebrate with music, dance and poetry to commemorate our ancestors. The lineup for this day is: Shavon Moore, Ms Ryan Nicole, Beats and Flows! And Tongo Eisen Martin.
Join us for our first Community Art Festival, Que Vivan los Muertos!! We will celebrate with music, dance and poetry to commemorate our ancestors. The lineup for this day is: Cristina Suarez Lopez, HouseFull / Amara Tabor-Smith with Unique Holland, NAKA Dance Theater with members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas and Megan Lowe Dances.
EastSide Arts Alliance and NAKA Dance Theater Present:
Noel Rodriguez / Graffika Urbana
Noel Rodrigues’s "Gráffika Urbana" project reflects social realities within Mexico City and its peripheries - a realities full of contradictions and contrasts. The engraving techniques employed by Gráffika Urbana’s block prints achieve this purpose and are ideal due to their intrinsic properties.
The city and its inhabitants are the main characters of this graphic narrative and presents a social critique that reflects the “normality” of class inequalities that occur habitually on a daily basis which are only threatened by community organizing and social protest. In turn we see how the people have been brutally repressed by the militarized police and the counterinsurgency apparatus. In concrete terms, the "Gráffika Urbana" project uses the materiality of the engraving process to transfer through carving on wood, metal and polymers a print on paper or fabric which is then inserted in public spaces as a form of urban intervention.
Join us for our first Community Art Festival, Que Vivan los Muertos!! We will celebrate with music, dance and poetry to commemorate our ancestors. The lineup for this day is: Puri Arts/Dohee Lee, Cunamacue, Violeta Luna and tiny poverty Skcola.
Join us for our first Community Art Festival, Que Vivan los Muertos!! We will celebrate with music, dance and poetry to commemorate our ancestors. The lineup for this day is: Vanessa Sanchez / La Mezcla, Anais Azul, Claudine/Guillermo-GIRL Project and Elandis V. Brooks.
Join us for our annual Dia de los Muertos Community Procession to honor our ancestors by sharing food, music and building a Tlamanalli (Sacred altar and food offering for our Ancestors). All are welcome.
Join us for a reception to celebrate Mujeres Tejiendo Historias (Women Weaving Stories, Eje xuj nchachmon qa o che ex tuj), a visual art exhibit at the Richmond Art Center.
Mujeres Unidas y Activas y NAKA te invitan a un proyecto de danza, teatro y música donde el cuerpo y la palabra de la mujer se visibilizan ante tanta injusticia sistemática, contando y bailando sus historias. Mujeres Unidas y Activas son poder, arte y sanación.
