5th Annual Latinidades Festival & Symposium in
Dallas
September 26 - October 13, 2024
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Cara Mía Theatre
proudly announces its 2024-2025 season, beginning with Dallas’s
largest international Latino theatre festival, the 5th annual
Latinidades Festival & Symposium from September 26 - October
13, 2024 at the Latino Cultural Center (2600 Live Oak Street).
Cara Mía Theatre’s International Latinidades Festival will
expand from three productions to 11 productions, including live
theatre, dance, music and poetry to celebrate diverse Latin
American voices. Productions hail from Dallas; San Francisco;
Miami; Barcelona, Spain; Mexico City; Bogotá, Columbia and San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
New to the Festival will be the inaugural “Latinidades Arts
Symposium: Sustaining the Arts through Community
Development” from October 3-5. Designed to support arts
organizations and independent artists, the Symposium will explore
how our arts can thrive during turbulent times, with emphasis on
local community engagement and dynamic partnerships. Topics include
audience building, collaborations, community as a campus, working
with your city government, and how funders can partner with artists
and arts organizations. The Symposium will be an opportunity for
every participant to learn and teach.
“We are certainly living in turbulent times, and Cara Mía
Theatre’s 2024-2025 season emphasizes the importance of building
alliances with local, national and international cultural
partners,” said David Lozano, Executive Artistic Director of Cara
Mía Theatre. “Our Latinidades Festival & Symposium aims to
capitalize on Cara Mía Theatre’s recent growth by becoming a
convener of diverse people from the Americas and support our
communities during these volatile times.”
5th Annual International Latinidades Theatre
Festival:
Beginning with a full-length dance theatre production of Ghostly
Labor by La Mezcla from San Francisco, this multidisciplinary
performance will be held on September 26-28 and it will explore the
labor history in the US-Mexico borderlands.
The next featured performance is Teatro Petra's comedy from
Bogotá (Colombia) Yo No Estoy Loca. It will be held September
27-29. Performed in Spanish with English subtitles, this solo
performance is about a woman's unexpected reaction to infidelity,
exploring societal expectations of women.
Coming from Mexico City, Cara Mía has invited two companies,
ASYC El Teatro de Movimiento and Mulato Teatro. ASYC performs
RESONANCIAS…algo que no se ha agotado which is a reconstruction of
memories growing up in Mexico City through dance and storytelling.
RESONANCIAS will be held on October 3 and October 5. ASYC’s
performance of El Primer Abrazo is a free event, which will be held
on October 6. This performance is a poetic dance and movement piece
about a young man's journey and connections with his origins.
Las Jevas from San Juan, Puerto Rico will share a comedic
theatrical show with themes of the Puerto Rican diaspora. In
Spanish, performances will run from October 4 -6.
The stage lights remain on for A Skin Poem for a Cosy House by
Los Escultores del Aire, a dance production from Barcelona, Spain.
On October 10 and October 12, this unique dance company will
feature a dance and mime duo exploring the stages of grief through
daily life and emotional struggles.
From Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Combat Hippies present
AMAL, a unique performance examining the impact of war through
humor and urgency. It will be presented on October 11-12.
Yemaya Flamenco, is a work in progress created by Cara Mía
Theatre and three other companies hailing from Ticumán, Morelos,
Mexico; Malagá, Spain, and New Orleans. Yemaya Flamenco is the
exploration of the Yoruba goddess Yemaya through dance, music,
poetry, and storytelling from October 12-13.
TINA’S JOURNEY / EL VIAJE DE TINA
The season continues with the production of Tina’s Journey / El
Viaje de Tina by Berta Hiriart, in association with the Laboratorio
de la Máscara (Mask Laboratory) from Mexico City. Performed with
contemporary and Mexican folk masks, Tina’s Journey is a visually
stunning, heartfelt and moving production that is a treasure for
all ages. This production will be held on February 8-23, 2025.
MARIACHI
The season wraps up with Mariachi, a new play-in-progress
inspired by the oral histories of mariachi living in Texas,
recorded by Voces Oral History Center at the University of Texas in
Austin. Experience the staged reading of this new work-in-progress
on July 26, 2025.
Tickets are available by visiting www.caramiatheatre.org.
Artists and patrons have the option to purchase a Latinidades
Festival Pass for $125 for access to 7 shows or a Latinidades 2024
Festival FLEX Pass for $80 for access to 4 shows.
Visit Cara Mía Theatre at caramiatheatre.org, email at
info@caramiatheatre.org, or call 214.885.2097.
CARA MÍA THEATRE’S MISSION
To inspire and engage people to uplift their communities through
transformative Latinx theatre, multicultural youth arts experiences
and community action programming.
Cara Mía Theatre is sponsored by the Law Offices of Domingo
Garcia, Mellon Foundation, City of Dallas Office of Arts and
Culture, The National Latinx Theater Initiative, The Arts Community
Alliance (TACA), The James and Gayle Halperin Foundation, Dallas
Tourism Public Improvement District, Melina D. & Jim A.
Johnson, The Shubert Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation,
HEB / Central Market, Texas Commission on the Arts, and Sammons
Center for the Arts. Media sponsor: Univision 23 Dallas.
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