Event

BOUND Together

Two amazing Bay Area dance companies, Aguas da Bahia and Alayo Dance Company come together in BOUND, sharing an evening of dance and music and the joining of the spirit and earthly worlds.

AGUAS DA BAHIA DANCE COMPANY

Sagrada / Profana Bahia

Tania Santiago draws on her Afro- Brazilian traditions as she weaves together and connects the sacred and the profane in these two pieces, Terra de Todos os Santos - The Land of All Saints and Terra de Felicidade - Land of Happiness. On one side of the coin we celebrate, while simultaneously, on the flip side, we express our faith, respect, and devotion. The sacred is present in everything we do.

ALAYO DANCE COMPANY

A Piece of White Cloth

Ramon Ramos Alayo weaves his Afro- Cuban Folkloric and modern threads into A Piece of White Cloth. He tells a tale of a person searching and struggling for plain white cloth. The journey is viseral, physical and sacred, drawing on the human, ancestor and sprit world. The white cloth is saturated in meaning and power and serves as the salvation and healing.

You can't miss him. He has legs like tree trunks and arm muscles that ripple like lava. When he leaps you think he'll never come down, and his turns suggest the power of a hurricane. He is dancer Ramon Ramos Alayo. - Rita Feliciano, SF Bay Gaurdian

www.alayodance.org, www.cubacaribe.org