Photos courtesy Hector A. Jaime Rodriguez.
Spring Emergence with Hector A. Jaime Rodriguez
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
10:00am-11:30am PT . 11:00 -12:30pm MT . 12:00-1:30pm CT . 1:00-2:30pm ET
We extend this special invite to those who have joined or expressed interest in movement sessions and online concerts in the cyber-world in the past year and winter, to join this movement series. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care - and welcome you to bring a friend!
Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, and if you are able to be generous with your resources, please consider doubling your donation to sponsor participation of someone who can not donate!
CLASS BREAKDOWN
15 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share
60 min Movement for all humans, regardless of dance background.
Final 15 min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together, and sharing about the hats coming next
BRING
Open mindedness, imagination, intuition and your full being
Layers of clothing for warmth and comfort and able to move
Barefoot or socks
Blanket or yoga mat
Water bottle
Notebook and pencil/pen
Artist Statement :
My goal is to revolutionize the world of dance by encouraging BIPOC folks to have a connection to the arts, specifically dance . As a non-binary queer latinx dancer/choreographer, I want to be able to showcase my pride on what it is to be a Latinx queer artist through movement composition. Having a bicultural, Mexican-American background influences my work. The main source of inspiration for my movement creation in addition to my culture comes from the years of experience I have as a contemporary ballet dancer, student, choreographer, and teacher. I respect and honor those who came before me from the same background who are successful, helpful and inspiring to others of their own. It is encouraging to move forward and pursue a dream to be a Queer Latinx artists that brings pride and recognition to our people. My objective is to inspire others, including the next generation of Queer and Latinx community to spread and spark curiosity for dance, creativity, art, history, and culture.
I use a mixture of inspirations that comes from movies, music, art pieces, and dance improvisation that helps me transform, navigate, and mutate movement for choreographic purposes. I allow myself to explore as much gesticulation of the body as possible, expanding my movement vocabulary for choreography. I want to make the audience intrigued by the intricate movement of the body and how special and important dance is, and how they can relate themselves to art. I like to focus on relating to the audience on a personal, physical, spiritual and/or philosophical level. I desire to facilitate the audience to amplify their inner and outer perception of themselves and appreciation for others who witness one of my pieces. In this environment, the audience is taken into a piece of my imagination where they are able to disconnect from the hardships of life and let them focus on the power of art. I want to use the language of movement to construct an environment that showcases how we are intertwined with each other.
Having graduated from the Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet BFA Program, I have had the opportunity to be a dancer, collaborator and choreographer during my years in higher education. Leading me to choreograph, direct, and edit my first full project for my Senior year of college “The Empress/La Emperatriz '', which for the reason of Covid-19 protocols had to be modified and placed in an online platform. Post-graduation, I became a dancer and collaborator with different companies here in the bay area including Sean DorseyDance. Since I have funded my own company named “Xochipilli Dance Company” that by the support of Deborah Slater Dance Theaterand the Studio 210 Residency Program premiered its first show in July, Summer of 2022. On the same hand, I was able to present new work at the BBQUEER Festival and Sii Agua Si invited by the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. I desire to facilitate the audience to amplify their inner and outer perception of themselves and appreciation for others who witness one of my pieces. I want to use the language of movement to construct an environment that showcases how we are intertwined with each other.
Xochipili Dance Company truly believes everyone is valuable and important. We are always in the search of wisdom in how to be better to ourselves and others around us. Respect is one of the most important pillars that we base our company on. We promote and enforce the spread and use of supportive language. Solemnly we do not tolerate or support any type of sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or ableism in this company. We are an ally to all men, women and any other identity that goes inside, out or in between the spectrum. Xochipilli Dance Company is a contemporary ballet based company in the Bay Area representing the Queer and Latinx community through original dance work. Our mission is to showcase how important dance is to our past, present, and future of shared history. We want to inspire everyone to explore dance and recognize that we are all movers. We like to focus on relating on a personal, physical, spiritual, and philosophical level. We desire to facilitate a space for inner and outer reflection. We want to use the language of movement to construct an environment that showcases how we are intertwined with each other.
Biography : Héctor Jaime (They/She/He)
Héctor was born and raised in Mexicali, Baja California, México. They began their training with Manuel Torres in El Centro Estatal de las Artes (CEART) and attended a couple of summer intensives in the US throughout high school. They were one of the recipients of The Herb Alpert Foundation Scholarship when they attended the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) in 2015. Héctor graduated from the Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet BFA Program in San Francisco affiliated with Dominican University of California. Post graduation, they had the opportunity to be a member of Sean Dorsey Dance, Dawson Dance SF, and have an appearance in the dance film titled “Falling Up” directed with Detour Dance Company. Héctor has always been inclined to teaching and became a teaching artist with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s HeART with LINES program. Héctor is now a ballet and contemporary instructor at Stapleton School of the Performing Arts. In 2022, Héctor became part of the LatinXtensions Cohort, a 12-month program advising emerging Latinx dance artists in developing their professional artistic practice. This encouraged them to start their own company “Xochipilli Dance Company'' based in the Bay Area. XDC has now premiered work in different residencies since its foundation including Deborah Slater Dance Theater summer residency in studio 210, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (FLACC) and Stapleton School of the Performing Arts Choreographic Residency.
DANCING EARTH CREATIONS dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.
“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.” - Founding Director, Rulan Tangen
Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, and if you are able to be generous with your resources, please consider doubling your donation to sponsor participation of someone who can not donate!
We are encouraging donations to support Dancing Earth’s.
International cultural exchange programs (recent and upcoming engagement with artists, community groups and culture carriers in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand), to create compassionate and sustainable relationships for creativity beyond borders.
Mentorship program for emerging artists leaders, spanning peer mentorship in administrative management, fundraising, budgeting, producing, grant writing, contracting, support for developing directorial and choreographic practice, coaching solo works, and community networks for workshops - and the vast creative skills needed to sustain a free lance performance career!
Cultivating high quality multi -media iterations to archive live work and as independent creative projects - as archival film footage is so often requested by our communities!
Summer Institute scholarships for incredible emerging artist-humanists!
Even if you can’t attend please consider making a donation to support this or any of Dancing Earth’s generous, prolific and ongoing inter-cultural, intergenerational, inter-disciplinary and inclusive creations! With gratitude, we welcome you to be a part of our circle by making your donation.