THERE IS NO INSURRECTION IN LOS ANGELES - There are kidnappings happening at the hands of ICE and a militarized occupation by our federal government… but the images you are seeing on the news aren’t the whole story… there are 1000s of people gathering everyday all over LA peacefully protesting- please let’s be clear and call it what it IS! LA is a beautiful city full of incredible human beings from all over the world and we aren’t going to allow this nonsense! I was downtown from 9:45am-3:30pm today and feel soul fed and also worried by the provoking/intimidation from police & national guard and now hearing that 45/47 is ordering in the marines!? THIS IS INSANITY! He’s trying to START a riot! The only thing creating an unsafe environment is the policing/military occupation. Protesting is our right! Ain’t no power like the power of the people ‘cause the power of the people won’t stop. Period.
I am creating that our city and our Los Angelinos stay calm and grounded… he wants us to break and lash out so he has an excuse to enact martial law - DON’T do it! Peace and non violence is a strategy - let’s use it!! 🙏🏽♥️✨
Stay safe LA 🫶🏽♥️✊🏽
#losangeles #ICE #resistência #standup #showup #welovela #unionstrong #powertothepeople #nojusticenopeace #nonviolence #peacefulprotest #CT4life
“It is a community, it’s a family. “
“A collective of artists I create worlds with.”
Those are just a few ways CONTRA-TIEMPO founding artistic director and UC San Diego head of dance Ana Maria Alvarez describes the dance company. The company returns to ArtPower next month with “joyUS justUS,” a piece where dance meets activism, celebrating joy and resilience through powerful, vibrant performances.
Nov. 22 and 23 at the Mandeville Auditorium.
Tickets and more info available via link in bio and always FREE tickets for UC San Diego students via SSO.
Join @imaginingamerica on Wednesday April 22, 12pm PT / 1pm MT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET for a virtual speaker series, Tools For the Undercommons.
Drawing inspiration from Harney and Moten’s theorization of “study” as the “incessant and the irreversible intellectuality” present in myriad forms of collective knowledge production, this speaker series brings together scholars, artists, and other cultural workers to share field-tested tools that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia, while also constituting an undercommons of its own. We define tools broadly—including strategies, tactics, theories, case studies, methods, and more—that support ongoing efforts to develop new pathways for research and creative intervention that is meaningful to those most impacted and that demonstrates the value of creative work to diverse audiences and institutions.
This month’s speakers include Ana María Álvarez, Associate Professor, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego, and Founding Artistic Director, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and our very own SA Smythe, Associate Professor, Black Studies & the Archive, and Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, University of Toronto.
RSVP via 🔗 (linktr.ee/blackpoiesis in bio)
All for one and one for all — but what does that mean now?
Join us for a post-show talkback, “All for One and One for All: The Three Musketeers as Coalitional Praxis.”
We’ll be in conversation about adaptation, collaboration, and what it means to build solidarity across difference — onstage and off.
Featuring the faculty creative team:
Director: Lamar Perry
Choreographer: Ana Maria Alvarez
Dramaturg: Mysia Anderson-White
Alongside our brilliant student dramaturgy team:
Costume Designer: Maricela Alaniz
Griffin Hanson
Luiscarlos Lozano
Fiona Morris
Come for the sword fight, stay for the conversation ⚔️
Dr. King was not only a dreamer - he was a strategist.
He understood that justice requires discipline, training, and collective practice. That love without power is fragile. That power without love is dangerous.
Today we honor him not through comfort, but through commitment.
This work is not performance.
It’s preparation.
We move as a way to practice justice in our bodies, to build stamina for truth, courage for resistance, and care for one another.
This is embodied organizing. The work continues ✊
#mlkday #nojusticenopeace #fuckice #endfascism #artassocialaction
WHAT MOVES YOU?
The beat of community? The power of joy? The urgency of justice?
At CONTRA-TIEMPO, we move because our stories matter. We move to heal, to resist, and to imagine new futures together.
This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking you to move with us. Your donation fuels the art, the community, and the movement we’re building.
💛 Give today 🔗 in bio: /donate-eoy
#GivingTuesday #ArtAsResistance #radical Joy #CONTRATIEMPO #JoinTheMovement #TakeUpSpace
Get ready fam! This Friday we’re opening our doors for a powerful company class with Ana Maria! Will we see you there???
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Join us for Ancestral Technologies of Resistance, a movement practice that invites you to liberate, awaken, and embody the spirit of protest through dance. As part of the nationwide @falloffreedom creative resistance we remind you that “our art are not luxuries, but essential tools of resistance” - @lynnnottage
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Come sweat, breathe, connect, and tap into the deep-rooted wisdom that lives in our bodies. Whether you’re a long time mover or stepping into class for the first time - YOU are welcome here!
🗓️ Friday November 21
🕠 5:30 - 7:30pm
📍Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
💜 Free with monthly membership | $25 drop in
Ages 18+
Let’s move in community. Let’s resist in joy. Sign up at the 🔗 in our bio
So happy to host our friends @contra_tiempo at Royce Hall for a huge group of local students as part of our Designed for Sharing program!
#dance #performingarts #artinschools #ucla #roycehall
DIRECT ADDRESS is theater as discourse. 📣
It is a celebration of the First Amendment and an experiment in making art out of the present tense. DIRECT ADDRESS is an appeal to your imagination and a gathering in the heart of the storm.
Cornerstone Theater Company has commissioned a group of local artists to make works for public spaces throughout Los Angeles County—works that directly address the state of things as they are right now and attempt poetic interventions on behalf of a just future.
These short works will be performed across Los Angeles leading to their complete one-night presentation at The Ford.
In this special showcase, the audience will be seated on stage with the performers for an intimate theatrical experience.
DIRECT ADDRESS is inspired by the history of American activism and public performance—from Frederick Douglass to ACT UP and beyond.
It’s an invitation to reimagine how we exercise our first amendment rights.
Commissioned artists include Ana María Álvarez, Agnes Borinsky, Daniel Alexander Jones, Fahad Siadat, Mario Vega, Members of the Cornerstone Ensemble, and more.
Founded in 1986, Cornerstone Theater Company began as a traveling ensemble living and working in primarily rural communities.
In 1992, the company settled in Los Angeles to focus on urban collaborations. Cornerstone has commissioned more than 100 playwrights, produced over 150 new works, trained thousands of students, and worked with tens of thousands of community members, in Los Angeles and across the country.
