Concept Statement

Brincando el Charco is a narrative demonstrated through dance and movement that hits very close to home. In three separate sections we follow a group of immigrants who are crossing the border. The first follows the group hiking the desert battling the elements and exhaustion as they seek asylum. Then a mother is face to face with a difficult scenario. A river separates her from freedom and she must bear the current with a young baby in her grasp. She gives everything she has including her child in a painful sequence of movements that gets her across the river. In the final chapter, the group has one more barrier, the border wall that spans for miles across uninhabitable desert. They travel along this fence displaying their frustrations through movement until they find a weak spot in the fence they can crawl through. They become surrounded and only one of the members is able to get away without being caught.

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I wanted to do this piece justice with my lighting as This piece hits very close to home in many ways. Living on this border I am consistently at the center of any discussion relating to a "border crisis". In wanting to service emotions driving the story I chose these harsh colors to support the trials the group was tackling. SL was an overbearing amber that began to lead into crimson and from the other side a cooler tone to keep them in this hot dessert as they traverse through different elements and times of day. A down texture was utilized to represent the violent waves of the river as it hit this large fabric. The Backlighting of the piece and use of cyc lights were used to isolate emotional displays of movement as the rest of the group carried on with reality.