Venue Accessibility Info Document
ABOUT THE SHOWS
This is a double bill with two different shows:
My Name is Tenacious by Our Bodies Are the Earth (A collaborative ritual & project of La Llorona x Blackroot), invites the audience to a not-so-distant future to bear witness to the medicine that the end-times of our colonial world brings. Haunting and brave soundscapes, storytelling through movement, and the release that climate change ushers is honored with the creation of this sacred ritual space that touches concepts of wounds held within our identities, bodies, and the earth.
This piece is one of a ritual performance art series, Our Bodies are the Earth, performed and crafted in collaboration through artists La Llorona & Blackroot. Together they seek to deepen the channels to their roots and disarm the disassociation that has been forced upon their lineages. Together, they reawaken the powers of ancestral connection, the stories of earthly spirits and activate of portals of their linages to the present with this mesmerizing & tantillizing spellwork expression.
This performance includes live music, dance, flow arts, and ritual.
Vestigios (Quito, Ecuador) is a game, an acrobatic dance choreography and a performance. It is a proposal and an excuse to situate ourselves in a common space of social reality in relation to the body. A body never stops dying and being reborn. In its changing condition, the body continually rearranges itself to remain the same.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
Both shows are for ages 18+
Masks are required for all audience members attending this show. Masks will be provided to all who need one.
Both shows contain nudity. In My Name is Tenacious, concepts of violence, colonialism and the apocalypse will be navigated.
For elevator access, entrance is at the back of the building near the entrance to the Canopy Hilton.
ABOUT TICKET PRICES
At this point in our development as a circus festival, ticket sales are critical to being able to book diverse circus shows and support the development of circus as an art form in the USA. We have started to gain traction and receive grants to pay for the free, outdoor, family friendly work we present, but also care deeply about presenting all kinds of circus at the festival that can't easily get funding, so ticket sales really matter.
Tickets cost $35 so that we can guarantee our performers housing, travel, and a performance stipend without artists needing to worry that their payout will be contingent on ticket sales.
This common practice of ticket splits often leaves artists vulnerable and paying to participate vs being compensated for their work - especially when presenting work that is not widely commercial or well known or with a large ensemble.
If this ticket price is prohibitive of your attendance, we are offering a community care ticket price of $15 for those in need. To arrange a community care ticket for any show:
-Text (preferred) or call our festival phone number at (607) 269-7227 to reserve in advance with at least 24 hours notice.
-Show up at the festival hub at 118 W. Green Street during the festival to arrange a ticket in advance. The festival hub will be open: 9/1 1pm-10pm, 9/2 10am -10pm, and 9/3 10am-2pm.
-Show up at any venue 30 min before showtime to procure a community care ticket on site for any show that has availability.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Our Bodies are the Earth is A collaborative ritual & project of La Llorona x Blackroot
Billie Blackroot: Rooted within the wisdom harvested from relationship to land and identity, Billie Blackroot (they/them) weaves stories that unearth collective wounds that are transmuted into a liberatory expression of body and tongue. Billie's object manipulation dance practice has always been centered in spaces where community, circus arts, and the earth find harmonious integration. Their work touches legacies of radical resistance through uplifting messages of indigenous sovereignty, Black liberation, trans community, and play as praxis. Committed to anti-capitalist, decolonizing practices, their collaborations are grounded as a site of relationship deepening, ancestral honoring, spiritual growth, and collective healing.
Alejandra Diemeke: La Llorona is an experimental music project created by violinist and singer Alejandra Diemecke (she/her). Coming from a classical background, Alejandra uses a looper to explore the many voices of the violin. Mixing genres and cultures, La Llorona is violin and voice crying out together. It is Ithaca forests meeting Mexican folklore. It is a haunting and powerful experience that speaks to the current times through a lens anchored in ancestral wisdom and earth magic.
Vestigios:
Christian Omar Masabanda completed his artistic studies in Ecuador and Mexico and has danced with Ballet Andino Humanizarte, Ballet Metropolitano, Contemporary Chamber Ballet of the National Ballet of Ecuador and in Mexico in Ballet Folklórico Mexicano Xochiquetzal, Ballet Independiente, Lagú Danza, México en Movimiento, A Poc A Poc Danza Contemporary, Utopia Dance Theatre. He has participated in Festivals, Performing Arts Meetings and Residences in Peru, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Spain and Belgium.
He is currently part of the cast of the National Dance Company of Ecuador, is Director of the Callejón Vacío Collective, General Coordinator of the Encounter "Vivamos la Danza" (Quito-Ecuador), teaches classes and workshops focused on the persistent investigation of the body, based on concepts such as: space-body-movement and principles of anatomy for movement.
CREDITS
My Name is Tenacious
ARTISTS: Blackroot (Billie Sol Alexandria), La LLorona (Alejandra Diemecke)
Set Design/Installation: Barrow Shine, Juan Lube, Nils Hoover
Vestigios
Artist: Christian Omar Masabanda, Andrés Velarde Coba
Producer: Andrés Velarde Coba