Revival of Cultural Arts Presents
Mística
Sunday, October 20th 6:00
TSC Performing Arts Center.
One performance only!
“Mística” honors and celebrates the creative and spiritual energies of Mexico’s indigenous, Afro, and Hispanic roots. It commemorates traditions of Dia De Muertos and transports the audience into the afterlife through the use of blacklight and Ballet Nepantla’s unique fusion of ballet, folklórico, and contemporary dance.
El Venado from the Yaqui tradition narrates the ballet and is accompanied by a range of traditional dances such as La Llorona, Bruja, and Diablos. El Venado Mictlin transitions the ballet from terrestrial life and into the afterlife. Act II is set to black light, as the dead come back to life and dance in celebration.
Drawing inspiration from Anzaldua’s borderlands theory, Artistic Director Andrea Guajardo and Associate Director Martin Rodríguez Vigíl create performances that speak to the “in-between” qualities of being from both sides of the borderland. They founded the idea of Nepantla, a Nahuatl term of the indigenous people of Mexico, providing a historical, intellectual, and artistic framework through which to explore the “in-between” spaces of history and culture by fusing new artistic expression that fuses different traditions on stage.
Nepantla is Nahuatl, the language of indigenous people from the Valley of Mexico. It means to be in a space of “in-between-ness,” an artistic space that describes Ballet Nepantla’s work.
Ballet Nepantla bridges borders. Its purpose is to move the human spirit from places of conflict and contention to places of peace and enlightenment.
