Teatro Dallas Announces Festival Acts

The line-up for Teatro Dallas' 15th International Theater Festival has been announced. The event happens Feb. 10-12 at the South Dallas Cultural Center. The three shows being presented are all in the United States, but have roots in Costa Rica, Colombia/Japan and Los Angeles via San Antonio. The first two events are performance art and dance, and the third a one-woman comedy called La Angry Xicana.

The shows are in Spanish, with an English libretto provided.

Here's the lineup:

Friday, Feb. 10, 8:15 p.m.: First Woman on the Moon by Elia Arce (dance, text, video)

Performance artist Elia Arce conducts an investigation of space, movement through it and the claiming of one's own. Through the use of her body, language, sound and visual images, Ms. Arce leads us through a series of places both physical and emotional, from the dark, lush jungles of her Costa Rican roots to the barren, lunar landscape of her adopted desert home.Ms. Arce's nomadic journey to the center of the self is met with obstacles at every stop along the way, until she claims the space that she can put a fence around and call her own. Arce is based in Santa Monica, Calif., she is a dual citizen of the United States and Costa Rica.

Saturday, Feb. 11, 8:15 p.m.: The Trace of Purple Sadness, a butoh dance by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya (based in New York, but of Colombia and Japan)

The Trace of Purple Sadness is a journey of one dancer in constant state of becoming in an ever-changing world. Life circles between appearing and disappearing; it becomes visible once we realize it will vanish. The human body, like a flower, sprouts to maximum splendor, to then decay into serene melancholy. Leaving a purple trace, the sky at dawn or the beginning of dusk.  Countless flowers are born in our bodies, every moment another trace.

Projected video creates forms of light that function as visual music creating a landscape for the body, ephemeral and rigid spaces. Sound pierces the space sometimes in unison with the dance, and at other times as a textural layer of the transforming landscape.

Choreography is based on transformation as a bodily condition, apprehending all that has yet to become; the possibilities of existence juxtaposed with the identity struggle of the social being. The body morph at times, creature, anonymous human and woman appearing and disappearing; finding its place to and breaking again.

Sunday, Feb. 12, 3 p.m.: La Angry Xicana?! by comedian/performer Adelina Anthony

An original X-X-Xicana comedic triptych where in her signature style, Adelina blends stand-up comedy, monologue, zany characterizations, and sprinklings of performance art moments. In these intensely bold, highly theatrical, and hilarious shows our performer intertwines Xicanismo, the queer, the feminist and everything else that matters for those of us working toward progressive politics and practices. Yes, comedy for the really really intelligent masses!

For more information, visit www.teatrodallas.org.