Brooklyn Arts Exchange Announces Mariana Valencia's ALBUM

Brooklyn Arts Exchange is proud to announce ALBUM by Mariana Valencia (2016/17 BAX Artist in Residence). The show will play April 7, 2017 at 8:00pm and April 8 at 7:00pm and 9:00pm.

Ticketsare $16 General, $10 Low-Income and can be purchased at web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/970468.

Mariana Valencia says of the show, "ALBUM is a solo performance where text song and dance come together in choreographic methods. ALBUM researches my herstory from a tableaux of personal narratives that encompass ethnography, memoir, and observations of my cross-cultural identifiers. I look to my herstory and pronounce its otherness as central, I uphold and juxtapose my urban experience with suburbia, the countryside, and the imaginary plane. From these observations that are factual, humorous and grave, I depict the frame from where I self-identify. My root query in these performed texts is, I'm not sure who will write a herstory about me; so I'm starting now so that they can have good notes. I perform this content in the form of an album-- both a picture and song album-- to inform you about who I am and why. This research particularly depicts my relationship to urbanity, vampires, love, and marginality; ALBUM navigates a cartographic herstory written from places out of focus, from where history neglects to look. ALBUM is similar to an archive, or an altar for my body."

Artist Bio

Mariana Valencia is a Brooklyn based artist. Her choreography has been presented in group shows at Dixon Place, Brazil , Roulette , Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, AUNTS and The Flea. Her performance/lectures have been presented at The New Museum, Communities of Practice, The New School, The Women and Performance Journal, Sunday Process Labs, Lec/Dem, and Ugly Duckling Presse. In New York, Valencia has held residencies at Chez Bushwick AIR (2013), New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013-14), AUNTScamp (2015), and ISSUE Project Room AIR (2015). Internationally, she has held creative residencies in Serbia and Macedonia. Valencia has performed with musician Jules Gimbrone; in videos by Elizabeth Orr, Kate Brandt, and AK Burns, and in dances by robbinschilds, Kim Brandt and MPA. Her projects in costume direction include works by Vanessa Anspaugh, Lauren Bakst and Juliana May. Valencia is a founding member of the No Total reading group, a sister of Artists Space Books and Talks, and she is a co-editor of Movement Research's Critical Correspondence (2016-17). Valencia is a Jerome Travel and Study Grant recipient (2014-15), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts EmergenCy Grant recipient (2015), a Center for Performance Research Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence Program recipient (2014-15), and a Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation grant recipient (2010-13). Valencia holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2006) with a concentration in dance and ethnography.

www.marianavalencia.work

ABOUT BAX

Founded in 1991, BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, is a community based performing arts center dedicated to developing artists of all ages, from children to professionals. The organization offers community access to arts and culture, supporting the creation of new work by emerging artists, engaging diverse audiences and providing arts education to youth and families. BAX has intentionally constructed an environment where children study and professional artists create under the same roof. Students are mentored by professional directors and choreographers. The organization's distinct focus on developmental process makes it a nurturing incubator for experimental dance and theater artists and is an important advocate for under-represented voices in the New York City performing arts community.

For more information about BAX and its programs please visit us on the web at www.bax.org.

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