MOVE TO VACCINATE
DANCE FILM PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE CDC FOUNDATION
CONTRA-TIEMPO is part of a national cohort of 30 cultural workers, artists, activists and community organizations reminding their community that the Covid vaccine is safe and the most effective way to protect people.
CAÑA- FEATURED EXHIBIT AT THE GETTY
FEBRUARY TO MAY 2022
Ana Maria was one of 4 artists commission by the Getty to create a dance film in connection to the works of painter Nicolas Poussin. In efforts to bridge Poussin’s work to today’s viewers and highlight the artistic vitality of LA’s dance community, this series of original dance films by LA-based choreographers features the film CAÑA.
What if a City
With a current residence over the last several years at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, CONTRA-TIEMPO has culminated their partnership with the creation of a film project with the Sheboygan community. Watch is their collective work honors the past, celebrates our present, and to bravely conjure a future for the city of Sheboygan.
This Body is My body
Abortion bans are undoubtedly rooted in white supremacy and these abortion restrictions will disproportionately impact our BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, youth, and low income communities. PERIOD. Although we are horrified at how the government continues to put into question peoples right to choose and make choices about their own body we dance, we shake, and we move as a form of resistance, as a form of embodying freedom, & conjuring justice.
Somos Agua: a collective honoring of our mama agua
“Water—An Activist Dance Theater Project by CONTRA-TIEMPO” is part of USC’s Common Ground, an original series of events that showcases Los Angeles artists and organizers who are deconstructing and reimagining America’s relationship to itself—the interplay between the nation and the actual landmass on which it depends. Join us for the premiere of our dance film, Somos Agua: a collective honoring of our mama agua, in collaboration with our LA community.
DEAR IOlA, Love, love south la
A film festival produced by South LA teens, all inspired by their journey with the 19th-century novel, lola Leroy by Frances E. W. Harper, one of the most important African American woman activists of her period.
RIO REVEALS
A series of innovative immersive premieres.
Brown
This original piece is from the full evening-length version of joyUS justUS (2018) - this is a version created for audiences to experience virtually.
until we win: An Artist Response to Injustice
A song for Solidarity. A poem to remember. So we never forget.
2018 BiNational Arts Residency
BNAR began in 2015 with the idea of connecting cultural communities in the Sonoran Desert with issues of social justice and identity through art.
Tiempos de Amor - Las Cafeteras
2nd "Single" from their 2nd album - "Taste Like LA" - Available Now
subMERGE
A dance scene for the camera - at the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts as a part of '313-to-213 Choreography Expo.'
DANCE MOTION
LA-based choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez’s urban Latin dance-theater company continued its mission to embody the diversity of the Latin-American experience in Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador.
Additional Posts: https://vimeo.com/100351206 - This is my protest video