Hidden Aztec

A a dance video I have made.


Used Choreography from last year, remade for this work.
Was about Drag Queen Struggle of a Butch Queen
Now, Its about body memories, prayer, remembrance, fear, self....

The Hidden Aztec inside myself, inside Drag, inside modern dance, inside the studio, in my life, is yours....

I am a warrior

‎"You cannot love anyone, if you don't love yourself" I find this true.
For the longest time, i did not love myself.
But damn it, I do love myself and myself says I love you. So there! Take it or leave it!
I am too awesome, regal, and impor...tant to deal with your bullshit. --this is not ego speaking, this is the truth-- I am very busy, and I am a warrior. I go into battle every day to be all I can be. And I love you. So take it or leave it. I wish you the best; now, I must dance.

--Cuauhtemoc

BALCK BIRD HIGH NIGHT

THIS IS A DANCE WORK I MADE FOR MY CLASS: DANCE ON CAMERA.
IT IS A DANCE FILM ABOUT MOVING, AND MOVING ON; FROM STILLNESS, TO DARKNESS.....
IT IS ALSO A DANCE FILM WITHOUT ANY BODIES IN IT (AS IS THE ASSIGNMENT)...



I Hope you enjoy it!

--Cuauhtemoc Peranda

CREDO IN US

ON SEP 22 , 2011

CREDO IN US: A CELEBRATION OF THE FINE ARTS AT MILLS 7:00–9:00 PM, ART MUSEUM 7:30 and 8:15 pm performances.

This event is free and seating is limited. Please RSVP acceptances only to:

inauguration@mills.edu.

In honor of the inauguration of Alecia A. DeCoudreaux as Mills College president, we invite you to attend a one-of-a-kind performance of experimental music and contemporary dance that is quintessentially Mills.



The Mills Percussion Group, conducted by famed composer, conductor, and Mills faculty member Steed Cowart, will perform Credo in Us by avant-garde composer John Cage. This lively mix of jazz, blues, percussion, and live radio/DJ was composed in 1942 for Cage’s first collaboration with choreographer Merce Cunningham.
For this occasion a newly commissioned dance to Credo in Us by award-winning choreographer, alumna, and Mills faculty member Molissa Fenley ’75 will be performed by members of her New York-based dance company along with both current and past dance MFA students (which included me, Cuauhtemoc!) in the Mills College Art Museum.
Before the performances, explore the open studios of our MFA students and see the cutting-edge visual arts being created at Mills every day. A dessert reception follows.

THESIS AUDITION SEPT. 6TH

PLEASE CLICK THE IMAGE FOR A BETTER VIEW OF THE INFORMATION.

??BEAUTY??

"These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn't be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn't conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within." -Alexander McQueen. Brilliant. --Eric*



..I like to think of the differences between: "hot" "beautiful" and "desirable"...

----where "hot" is a social construct of our silly society--a colonization telling us what we need to be, and go after....
----"beautiful" is that which holds some ...kind of catharsis within it that helps us feel an ephemeral sensation of happiness/understanding/flow...i.e. "ART"....
---- "desire" is like lust, or that which is biologically programed in us to want--penises get hard for something, not because it is beautiful, but because it is imprinted on us to fuck it....

...lolz....(?--too much?)...

----what is important to remember, is that just because you don't want to fuck it, does not mean it is not beautiful or important to our lives....


*eric is a good friend of mine who has some interesting ideas i like to explore

Go Go Dancers

What if I changed my thesis topic to the "Dominance and Subordination by the Performance of Male and Female Go-Go Dancers"--how the human eye objectifies or subjectifies these living things....and what power they have over the audience/viewer...and what they mean to our culture, to our expectations, to our desires, to our ideals, and to our reality....oooo, sounds like a great paper! ugh! so much to write, so little time :/

More importantly, I am really interested in how we view Female Go-Go vs. Male Go-Go. Less thinking about strippers, or prostitutes (which is what they suggest) more, the art of Go-Go....and how are they seen but the queer world, and the straight world....what is in the performance of this "kind" of sexuality and aesthetic? What is their place? what sensations does their dancing bring about? ooo so interesting :D

Grant!

Hello my friends. I am sorry for not posting so often these last few weeks, but I have been extremely busy with my school work.

I have just had my first full week of school, And I am very excited for the new year! Especially my dance on camera class, taught by Shinichi Iova-Koga. I will be making dance film, vs. documentation of dance, and I will know a lot more about turning a dance work into a material thing--which is very intriguing to me. Often times you have to 'dance' dance for it to exist. It is in the DANCING of the dance that it is born, alive, decays, dissipates. All within one moment. But if it is on camera, built for a film--all you have to do is press play--just like an MP3 or open up a .jpg....I think that whole concept is very interesting....It's gonna take work, but I am ready.

Other than That, I wanted to announce that I DID IN FACT GET THE QUEER CULTURAL CENTER GRANT FOR THE MILESTONES PROJECT TO PRESENT AT THE NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL IN JUNE!!!
So look out for me an my work in the coming year! I will be dancing :D

Lastly, I am sad to say I will have to leave NEW FIRE. a play that is scheduled for January. It pisses me off that I have to leave, but it has to be done. with the rehearsal schedule, my thesis, and my rehearsal schedule, and the extremely low pay for a "not really working student", plus no equity points...its too much to be asking from me. I had thought i could do it! It sounded like a great play, but I just can't....

Maybe if i worked out the rehearsal schedule, but honestly, it gives them very little time to work with me, and will cost me too much money to be going back and forth from Oakland to SF...I would need at least a 1k to work with them, something tell mes, its not even close to that :/ something tells me its more like $200.00 which is not even enough to cover BART and food--not even talking about rent.

To this, i wonder how people even hold down "day jobs" when they do plays. In a dance company, you have set weekly classes and rehearsals....but what else do people do, what if they work 25-40 hours a week? No one can make it to everything.....

The world sucks in this way, its highly unsteady for the artist :/ but that's the way it is.....money and work comes and goes--and you are always on the lowest bracket of taxes...great! However, you get to create, preform, and change through art. Quite an amazing feat! worth it? I think so....

Yah just got to nail down that Day-Job and things can work out!

---Cuauhtemoc