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Dear Friends at Salsa San Diego,

My name is Lauren and I work with CONTRA-TIEMPO dance company from Los Angeles- we have an exciting event to add to your calendar! We are coming to SD in a few weeks to share our work for ONE night at San Diego Community College's Saville Theater. Our show is incredible and will be a night of inspiration, dance and community! Please come to the show on the 26th and let your community know about this exciting opportunity to see our work. I also sent a regular e-mail about our show as well.

Thanks so much, and hope to see you on the 26th!

Lauren Gilhuly
Production Intern
www.contra-tiempo.org
310-397-6308



FOR MORE INFO AND TO GET TICKETS TO OUR SHOW:

CONTRA-TIEMPO IN SAN DIEGO




Ana María Alvarez FOR IMMEDIATE USE
(3 10) 980-5085/(310) 387-6308 February 10, 2010
www.contra-tiempo.org

Los Angeles’ acclaimed Latin Dance Company, CONTRA-TIEMPO,
Performs at San Diego City College – MARCH 26th, 2010

San Diego City College
Saville Theater C St. & 14th St.
San Diego, CA 92101
March 26th, 8:30 p.m.
For tickets visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/96548
or http://contra-tiempo.org/events.html
General Admission $25

CONTRA-TIEMPO “represents the kind of socially aware contemporary work that only a few dance artists such as Bill T. Jones reliably provide.” - Los Angeles Times

CONTRA-TIEMPO will be presented by the United Association of Labor Education’s 2010 Conference at San Diego City College on March 26th, 2010. CONTRA-TIEMPO is a Los Angeles-based activist dance company founded in 2005 by choreographer Ana María Alvarez and a dynamic group of performers. The company fuses Salsa, Afro-Cuban, Hip-Hop, and abstract dance-theater to create an invigorating blend of physically intense and politically astute performance. While their performances are consistently electrifying, what sets the company apart most is its unique relationship to its own community.

CONTRA-TIEMPO is an active and uncompromisingly radical group that strives to create an impact on the ways in which artists function within communities. Its members are fierce dancers and performers who are also immigrants, teachers, activists, and organizers, living and working in Los Angeles. Each member lives and confronts daily struggles within the varied and infinitely complex political and personal landscapes in which we live, which Alvarez seeks to address in her work.

The experience of work today is shaped by shifting forces that are at once geographic, economic, political, and national. The UALE (United Association for Labor Education) Conference 2010 is a conference for labor educators and labor movement activists who want to learn and share their efforts to act effectively in this rapidly changing arena. CONTRA-TIEMPO will be performing as a part of this conference, presenting their past works “I Dream America”, “Against the Times”, “Brackish Waters”, “Plástico”, as well as other new works. "I Dream America" is a 40-minute movement opera, which primarily seeks to engage the tensions, commonalities, strains and histories between the Black and Latino communities that are embedded in our past and still plague communities at present. “Against the Times” explores Salsa as a dance of resistance, change, and of the times- together the cast will move resistance from being adversarial to being the fundamental key for communication and empowerment between partners and for a people.

CONTRA-TIEMPO has taken off as a company in the past two years- touring “I Dream America” and “Against the Times” non-stop nationally and internationally to New York, North Carolina, Georgia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. This The past two summers, CONTRA-TIEMPO has led their Annual Cultural Exchange delegation of professional artists to work with professional dance companies in La Havana and Santiago, Cuba.
"The company is strong, the opinions stronger, the sense of people dancing against injustice or taking on themselves the pain of the oppressed is like nothing else in local dance. The most powerful moments come when the statements of mutual support and solidarity suggest that Alvarez sees CONTRA-TIEMPO as a microcosm of a reconceived U.S.A. — a supportive community, responsible and caring." Los Angeles Times


For more information, please contact Ana Maria Alvarez, Artistic Director, at anamariaalvarezct@gmail.com