Pachanga e Poder: A Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Social Dance Research Incubator
Developed by Department of Dance Assistant Professors Irvin Manuel Gonzalez and Alfonso Cervera, Pachanga e Poder is community-driven research incubator.
Sullivant Hall Room 350
The event brings together artists, activists, scholars, and dancers to investigate the multiple intersections within Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean social dance forms, analyzing social dance as social justice. The incubator hosts experimentations with aesthetics, sensibilities, ontologies, ecologies, and knowledges located in social dance forms that emerge from African and Latin American diasporas to consider how these intersections have emerged as and continue to foster tools for resistance, power, belonging, and justice. Between March 19-21, bodies will convene to analyze and cite connections in social, folk, and spiritual dance forms from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, digitally archive artistic experimentations, and theorize the im/material spaces revealed in the practice of dancing. Invited artists/activists/scholars include Beatrice Capote, Alfonso Cervera, Dr. Colette Eloi, Carne Viva Dance Theatre (Chachi Pérez & Lazco), Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Marina Magalhães, Jade Power-Sotomayor, OSU students, and more!
Join us for this open community sharing that invites participants to witness and share in the week’s findings, intersections, play, and experimentations in ACCAD’s Motion Lab.
This event is funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant, with support from the OSU Department of Dance,the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design Department, and the Center for Latin American Studies.