BLURRED BORDERS
BODYPARTS. Photo: Jim Carmody.
Blurred Borders International Dance Festival is an annual cross-cultural event created to foster the artistic and intellectual exchange of ideas of progressive international, national and local artists. This 11th edition of Blurred Borders Festival returns with a blend of potent dance theatre and creative video dance that deals strongly with border crossings — human, age, gender, and physical borders. Featuring contemporary risk-taking choreographers whose work is fresh and powerful.
The Patricia Rincon Dance Collective receives significant funding from The San Diego City Commission for Arts and Culture, The San Diego County Community Arts Grants by way of Pam Slauter, The John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation, San Diego City College Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and World Cultures Department, The City of Encinitas Community Grant (with a matching grant from the Mizel Family Foundation), the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, UCSD Latino Studies Research Initiative, and private donors.
In October 1996 Artistic Director Patricia Rincon completed the first American tour of international choreographers here in San Diego called Kultur Mix International Dance Festival, now called Blurred Borders Dance Festival. It has grown to include artists from around the world, including Tanz Art Ursula Berger Dance – Switzerland; Erwin Schumacke Tanz Theatre – Switzerland; Company Drift – Switzerland; Tanzprojekt Elfi Schafer-Schafroth – Switzerland; Regi/Heidi – Switzerland; Paralelo 32 – Mexico; Utopia Danza Teatro Marco Antonio Silva – Mexico City; Ricardo Peralta Danza Performa – Mexico; Lux Boreal – Mexico; Epiphany Productions – San Francisco; Nancy McCaleb – San Diego; Tammy Wong – Singapore; Sonya Delwald – Montreal/San Francisco; Daghdha Dance Company – Ireland; Yu Dance Theatre – Korea/Los Angeles; Rodney Masson – Hip Hop Theatre Artist – Los Angeles; Yolande Snaith – San Diego/London; Video artist Paula Zacharias – Buenos Aries, Argentina; Eric Geiger (former Bill T. Jones dancer), San Diego; Allyson Green – New York/San Diego/Latvia; Deven P. Brawley – San Diego; Divya Devaguptapu – India; Eileen Standly & Monica Page – Amsterdam; Peter G. Kalivas, Director of The PKG Project–San Diego; collaborative dance theater LIVE–San Diego and Susana Szperling, director of SZ DANZA –Buenos Aires, Argentina.
BODYPARTS. Phot: Jim Carmody.
