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UPSTARTS SERIESWAC MFA candidates conclude their graduate studies through either a final performance on campus or the completion of a portfolio of works produced at various venues in Los Angeles and beyond.
Fall Quarter 2008 “Sheetal Gandhi and Krenly Guzman in Concert”:
A Shared Evening of Dance and Dance-Theater Choreographers Sheetal Gandhi and Krenly Guzman present a program of new original dance and dance-theater work. The performance takes place at 8pm on Friday and Saturday, November 21st and 22nd, 2008 at UCLA’s Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $8 for students with ID. For reservations call Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or log on to www.tickets.ucla.edu. Parking is $9 in Parking Structure 4. Enter the campus at Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd. This performance is produced by the MFA Upstarts Series. Gandhi and Guzman have over fifteen years of professional experience as performers and choreographers. In a shared concert of separate works, both artists investigate notions of confinement and release through the fusion of traditional and contemporary movement vocabularies. Gandhi’s Bahu-Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife), a
dance-theater solo, draws on personal narratives and centuries-old women’s
songs from North India to reveal the complex tensions around freedom
and compromise, desire and longing, duty and love. Gandhi mines the
text and subtext of these songs to re-imagine the singers’ lives
by confronting them with women from her own life. Guzman’s Reclaiming
the Sacred, a contemporary dance work, explores the ways sexuality and
gender penetrate and affect the Afro-Caribbean religion Santeria. Inspired
by his personal experience, Guzman’s performance explores the
fluidity of gender as is expressed within the religion’s physical
practice.
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