La Voz del Cuerpo — The Body Speaks
a personal poetics of Martha Graham’s dance.
La Voz del Cuerpo is a film/DVD project in progress. It is my personal poetics of Martha's dance, created as a collaboration with American and Mexican dancers and musicians, friends of many years, sharing the dance we love and creating new art.
Filmed in Colima, Mexico with the marvelous University of Colima film crew, CEUVIDITE, our t‑shirt read Encuentro en Colima. What a time we had, party and work, introducing my friends, students of many years to each other; eating, dancing, talking and sharing, drawing together the threads of US and Mexican dance and music: Graham and folkloric dance, pre-hispanic music, jazz, piano, and percussion.
La Voz del Cuerpo celebrates the creative life of the dancer and illuminates the revolutionary technique at the core of Martha Graham's art, making connections to its roots in sculpture, literature, music and the natural world. The film melds visual imagery and metaphor with aspects of Graham's technique and repertory filmed in unique settings to highlight their expressive power and natural imagery. With interactive access to sequences of the Martha Graham technique, it will make available for the first time fundamental information about Martha Graham's technique that will be invaluable for teachers and students, including class, repertory, and dialogues with the performers in Spanish and English. Editing is in progress. La Voz del Cuerpo / The Body Speaks will be for anyone who wants a deeper knowledge of dance, art, and the creative life of the dancer.
La Voz del Cuerpo is a work in progress. This short film is a demonstration of our concept
Credit for
La Voz del Cuerpo / The Body Speaks
a personal poetics of Martha Graham's dance
Conceived and Directed by Christine Dakin
With the generous patronage of the University of Colima, Colima, México
M.C. Miguel Ángel Aguayo López - Rector
Supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Filming by CEUVIDITE
Centro Universitario de Video Didáctico y Televisión Educativa de Universidad de Colima
General Director M.C. Miguel Macías
Artistic Collaboration and Coordination
Maestro Rafael Zamarripa Castañeda- Director del Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Colima
Special thanks, with enormous gratitude to
• All the incredible artists; dancers, musicians, from the US and Mexico; my friends, colleagues and students; who shared their passion and talents.
• Mtro. Rafael Zamarripa Castañeda, for his great friendship, collaboration, and inspiring artistry in dance and sculpture.
• M.C. Miguel Ángel Aguayo López, University Rector, for vision and extraordinary support of artists and the arts.
• Our film crew from CEUVIDITE, and Director Miguel Macías, for their tireless work and creativity.
• Mtra. Guillermina Bravo, who is the Mexican contemporary dance community's root.
• Steve Mauer, my better half, for the embrace and firm hand, theater/technical skills and the voice of sanity that kept us moving and happy.
Credit for La Voz del Cuerpo Demo Production
Editing - Steve Mauer
Music/Sound - Pat Daugherty and Eduardo González
Recording - Pedro Palacios Gómez
DVD authoring - Steve Mauer
Additional film by Jason Nogoy and Additional editing by Roland Marconi
Photographs by Chuck Kimball
Text and narration - Christine Dakin (recorded at The Juilliard School)
Performers : Dancers / Musicians
New York
Heidi Stoeckley (Dancer)
Samuel Roberts (Dancer)
Pat Daugherty (Musician, composer)
Querétaro, Mexico
Sergio Pérez Morales (Dancer, Costumer)
Raúl Almeida (Dancer)
Mexico City, Mexico
Eduardo González (Musician, composer)
Colima, Mexico
Viviana Nava (Dancer, coordinator)
Alejandro Avalos (Dancer, coordinator)
Adriana León Arana (Dancer)
Karla Coyazo (Dancer )
Juan Carlos Gaytán (Dancer)
Pedro Palacios Gómez (Musician)
Dancers of Ballet Folklórico de Universidad de Colima
Juan Carlos Gaytán Rodríguez
Cristian Azael Gutiérrez Vega
Alfredo (Fredy) Torres Gómez
Omar Alejandro Rojas Ramos
Salvador Sánchez Baraja
Zoraida Cruz Andrade
Iris Godínez Astorga
Laura Celina Barajas Velasco
Perla Damara Cruz Reyes
Alejandra Torres Larios
Creative advisor - Jaime Blanc
Computer animation - Renato Guerra
La Voz del Cuerpo Staff de Producción CEUVIDITE
(Centro Universitario de Video Didáctico y Televisión Educativa)
Producción General
Miguel Macías Amador
Coordinador de producción
Jorge Martínez Durán
Producción
Edith Bracamontes Ceballos
Dirección de cámaras y switcher
Mario Hernández Barreda y Jorge Martínez Durán
Video tape
Adriana Salgado de la Torre
Cámara
Alma Méndez Trujillo
Aristani Álvarez López
Hugo Ramírez Rodríguez
Mario Ramírez Ramírez
Asistencia de producción
Alejandro Ramírez Huerta
Yunuén Amezcua Chávez
Paulina Rivera Cervantes
Adriana Salgado de la Torre
Audio
Ayax Isais Amezcua y Eustolio Magaña Silva
Coordinación Técnica
Salvador Díaz Cossío
Production Staff of University of Colima Theater
Director of Theater and Production - Jonathon Aparicio Jiménez
Aline González Balcázar
Sergio Figueroa Morales
Abraham Anguiano Alcaráz
Siuni Aparicio Fuentes
Julio Hernández Huitzil
Salvador Saucedo Gaspar
Inés Sosa García
Staff Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes y Ballet Folklórico de Universidad de Colima
Director del Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes
Esc. Mario Rendón y Lozano
Coordinador General del Departamento de Danza
Mtro. Rafael Zamarripa Castañeda
Coordinadora Administrativa del Departamento de Danza
Licda. Ma. Guadalupe Reyes Teodoro
Coordinador Académico del Departamento de Danza
Lic. Miguel González Cervantes
Subdirector del Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Colima
Prof. Juan Carlos Gaytán Rodríguez
Coordinador Administrativo del Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Colima
Lic. Cristian Azael Gutiérrez Vega
Coordinador Técnico
Ricardo Munguía de la Cruz
Assistente, Dir. de Taller de Mtro Zamarripa
Raul Ojeda
Secretario Administrativo del Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes
Cp. Julio Pérez Preciado
Coordinador de Talleres Libres del Departamento de Danza
Lic. Fortunato Larios Mejía
Thanks to Sr. Rogelio Rodríguez and his staff at Hotel America in Colima for making us welcome
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