This project aims to connect participants to the history and culture of the historically significant Mexican American West Side community. Individuals will be guided through activities that affirm, connect, and engage personal stories across varying physical abilities, ages, and experiences by fusing movement making, creative exploration, performance and story telling.
This summer, three San Antonio historic and cultural landmarks will set the state for SATELIGHT DANCE, a series of workshops and performances followed by a screening and discussion that focus on activating public space through dance making and community engagement. Site specific is a process for creating work in response to a particular place or…
Part of a two year residency in collaboration with the Facing Race Conference, the Dance Exchange creates links between community partners organizing on issues of racial equity. The culmination of the project will be a performance that reflects the history and resiliency of the local communities of Dallas, Texas. Performance to take place in the fall of 2015.…
An Imagining is a vibrant, arts-infused gathering in which a community envisions its ideal future and identifies creative tactics to get there. Part performance, part facilitated dialogue, part celebration, these first Imaginings will bring together diverse groups of artists, organizers, and community members to imagine what their neighborhoods (and the world) might look like in…
I am an art maker that is guided by sensory, place making, and truth telling. I utilize installation for its disjunctured quality that much like memory is a set of fragmented experiences that can be recalled and constructed as desired. Like an ethnographer, I draw on different elements to capture the essence of these moments…
My current piece, Hembra, was shown at Works In Progress on April 30, 2014 at Uptown Studios. WIP is a monthly showing sponsored by Jump Start Performance Company and San Antonio Dance Umbrella. Hembra has been selected to be shown at WIP Crème! on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at the Say Si Black Box Theater at 1518…
TEN MINUTE SESSIONS at Lady Base Gallery TEN MINUTE SESSIONS echos the new focus on Installation-based art and Performance-based art at Lady Base Gallery. Curated by Fabiola Torralba, this is an exhibition of short performances that will introduce a new body of work by local Women artists and LBGTQ artists and is also a benefit…
I’ve been selected to be a Cultural Agent for the first cohort of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture! From the USDAC website: IT’S TIME TO DEEPEN OUR INVESTMENT IN ART, CULTURE, AND CREATIVITY. In this era of broken systems—from healthcare to energy to education to the way our entire economy is structured—citizens must…
Erison Dancers is a modern dance company created by Erica Wilson Perkins. Lights, Erison Dancers, San Antonio, Texas October 2010, Revolución into the Third Century, Erison Dancers, Carver Community Cultural Center, Jo Long Theatre, San Antonio, Texas May 2011, Prototype, Erison Dancers, Lupes Art Blend, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas Photography by Gloria Trevino. http://www.capturedbygloria.com/…
Surreal 9-11, City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation, Jo Long Theatre, Carver Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas. A concert commemorating the anniversary of 9-11.
April 2012, entre nos, Student Works in Progress, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas Photography by Gloria Trevino. http://www.capturedbygloria.com/
A site specific dance created for the Hays Street Bridge Restoration group in movement for preservation. Original showing took place on August 2012 at the Hays Street Bridge. A collaboration between Fabiola Torralba and Michele Simpson. Photographs by Andrew Coronado. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O18a3unlTpc&feature=youtu.be Video by Karen Becerril YouTube Channel: Karedance1 The following information is taken from the Esperanza…
A bilingual multimedia performance that presents multiple facets of the immigration experience by first voices. Individuals share personal narratives that reflect experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Stories of wit, resiliency, compassion, and imagination unravel through song photography, performance, digital imagery, video, and dance revealing the diversity of the human experience. Original concept by Fabiola…
nos(otros), is an installation-based collage of memories, stories and moments that explore the internal conditions of being a Mexican undocumented immigrant. Based on personal and first hand experiences gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, each piece of the installation depicts fragments of a larger narrative construct of migration. Where narrative is a negotiation that wrestles with silence,…
