Victor Quijada

Williams Center for the Arts

Elsewhere, but always rooted. No matter where Perera Elsewhere has found herself musically, she has constructed a creative habitat and welcomed others to it.

Pesky and Arts & Tech artist: Perera Elsewhere

Lafayette College

024 Guggenheim Fellow Choreographer, Victor Quijada’s particularly intimate new work, Second Chances, is inspired by his experience in Los Angeles as a first-generation Mexican American. Returning to the stage as a performer, Victor explores themes of identity and homeland. The show includes excerpts from Trenzado, which features a soundtrack by composer and DJ Jasper Gahunia, sampling traditional Mexican norteño music (corridos and ranchera). In addition to Trenzado, this repertory program also includes Commissions Suite, a reconstruction of two works originally choreographed by Quijada for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Physikal Linguistiks) and Scottish Dance Theater (Second Coming). A soundtrack by Jasper Gahunia provides the landscape as seven performers navigate the chaos.

Second Chances invites Quijada and the audience to delve deep inside themselves, reflecting on origin, belonging, and displacement, between universal questions and intimate, personal thoughts.

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