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DESCRIPTION:On the anniversary of September 11th, CounterPULSE presents fresh work by 
 two artists who speak directly to the displacement and transformation 
 inherent to the experience of immigration, and the personal cost of the War 
 on Terror. Together, they weave dance, theater, music, and multimedia into 
 a rich personal tapestry with broad political implications.\n\nDhoom 
 Dhamaka!\nBy Joti Singh and Duniya Dance Company\nFeaturing performances by 
 Daisy Rockwell\n\nA collaboration between Joti Singh's Duniya Dance 
 Company, musician/dancer Boynarr Sow, and painter Daisy Rockwell, Dhoom 
 Dhamaka! explores the individual identities of both those in power and 
 those divested of power by the so-called “War on Terror”. The piece is 
 inspired by the story of Boynarr Sow. Sow, born and raised in Senegal, and 
 a U.S. citizen by marriage, was abducted by the Department of Homeland 
 Security, sent to Guantanamo Bay for one week. He was subsequently held in 
 detention in Arizona for a year and a half, where he could not see his 
 young daughter and could not practice dancing and drumming, activities 
 around which his life had up to that point revolved. Although he repeatedly 
 came before a judge who recommended his release because there was no 
 evidence to show that he was a terrorist, he was kept in detention. Now 
 released, Sow returns to the Bay Area, where he will appear live as part of 
 the performance. Rather than harboring feelings of anger and revenge, Sow 
 wishes to live his life in peace away from the omnipresent vision of the 
 U.S. Department of Homeland Security.\n \nBringing together music from 
 Mali, Jamaica, India, Senegal, and Guinea, and beyond, Dhoom Dhamaka! draws 
 upon a sense of belonging and citizenship in flux, a sense of rootlessness 
 where there once was rootedness, a sense of living in a state of 
 uncertainty and fear. While the piece explores a bleak and devastating 
 moment in the life of an immigrant, this moment exists simultaneously with 
 moments of beauty and hopes for justice. Painter Daisy Rockwell displays a 
 series of paired portraits of individuals that play roles in the struggle, 
 drawing parallels between the weak and the powerful, the ‘good’ and the 
 ‘bad,’ and make us think about the humanity of everyone who is involved 
 in the so-called War on Terror.\n\nBorder TRIP(tych) II: A BODY 
 PARTED\n(shrapnel of present time / esquirlas de tiempo presente)\nby 
 Violeta Luna and Secos & Mojados\nFeaturing performances/collaboration by 
 Victor Cartagena, David Molina, Roberto Varea & Maria Reyna 
 Sanchez\n\nPerformance artist Violeta Luna, known for her work with 
 Guillermo Gomez-Peña, presents part two of Border TRIP(tych), a movement, 
 sound and media-based performance-art piece focused on an immigrant’s 
 journey as she leaves her home in Latin America and arrives in the US 
 searching for work.\n\nPart one, Buried in the Body of Remembrance deals 
 with the past, presenting an archeology of memory, an awakening of 
 awareness in the central character that she is to leave and become an 
 immigrant. A Body Parted: shrapnel of present time / esquirlas de tiempo 
 presente (working title for part two) is her conscience after “the 
 crossing.” Forever marked by the in-between she takes on the task of 
 transforming shards of memory into “dreams” of possibilities in a new 
 landscape.\n \nThe migrant body is a working body, defined fundamentally by 
 its ability to perform work. If she is to restore the full dimension of her 
 humanity, in the cracks and the fractures of the new system she has to 
 assemble her new body. Indeed, her present has become a construction site 
 where she has to build a new identity, a new territory that she will 
 negotiate based on her needs, and what is imposed on her by this new 
 geography. She believes that this construction site is her last border to 
 cross.\n \nSewing machine center stage; a great dress is being built, 
 covering the whole stage, part projection screen, a “net” where to 
 catch image-splinters of past and present: sweatshops, social unrest back 
 home, solidarity, pieces of broken English, deportations. Objects-icons are 
 sewn into the landscape. The audience is invited to take part in this 
 experimental social surgery.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/14/18526354.php
SUMMARY:Dhoom Dhamaka! and A Body Parted : New Works by Violeta Luna & Joti Singh
LOCATION:CounterPULSE\n1310 Mission St. (@ 9th)\nSan Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/14/18526354.php
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