AMALIA COLÓN-NAVA & CAITLIN GREEN Wed-Thurs. May 8-9 Two choreographers share an evening of dance film  and performance. 

Amalia Colón-Nava will present We could plant fruit trees/ Podríamos plantar arboles frutales, which she says is a reflection on her travels to Mexico – “a place that for me holds history, culture, and family lineage.” Integrating storytelling and interviews from her travels, this project uses dance, diary entries, field recordings and more “to share the experience of struggling to build a connection with this place, imbued simultaneously with indigenous traditions and strong Catholic values and Spanish colonial influence, and understand the lives of past generations. It deals with the consequences of relocation and migration, and is deeply entangled with themes of mixed identity, globalization, extreme wealth disparities and, over everything, the deterioration of natural landscapes, traditional land work, and climate change."

Amalia Colón-Nava, is a Chicanx multi-disciplinary movement artist based in Philadelphia. She is also a co-member-owner of Dirtbaby Farm, residing in Northwest Philadelphia, the traditional land of the Lenni Lenape. Her artistic research is inherently embedded with themes of nature, land, landscape, holistic care and agriculturist. As artist, videographer, dancer she has performed with The Naked Stark, Curt Haworth, Lily Kind, among others, and collaborated with photographer, John Singletary and musicians Tim Motzer and Saleka Night.

Caitlin Green will screen “FURY” an excerpt from the in-progress experimental dance film, Eros: As Fragile as it is Free. Inspired by the obscure emotions that can result from the postpartum experience, the film explores how extreme feeling can simultaneously breed a siloed perception of self whilst mirroring that of the collective unconscious. "FURY" is a reckoning with anger, grief, rage, and the isolation that these taboo emotions require.

Caitlin Green is a freelance dance artist with a background in dance/movement therapy (R-DMT). Their work has been featured in the Philly Fringe Festival (2019), EMERGE Earthdance multidisciplinary artist residency (2019), the Painted Bride Art Center’s Building Bridges artist cohort (2020), and Bodymeld’s GWYN residency (2021). Caitlin is the curator and facilitator of “Our Embodied Impulses” (2021) - a collaborative choreographic project that explored the interconnected nature of individual and collective restoration. She is the curator and facilitator of a workshop series “Dancing to Transgress: Lessons from bell hooks” (2020) which questioned traditional educational settings and engaged teaching artists in discussions to re-imagine what a multicultural and inclusive learning environment can look like.