Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral performing "Andares"
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral performing "Andares" on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 and Thursday, October 13, 2022 starting at 7:30 PM both nights.

Woven from ancestral myths, traditional music, and a three-person narrative, Andares reveals the extraordinary spirit of Mexico’s remote corners and the astonishing pathways of its humblest of inhabitants. With a live musician and inspired actors, this profound play shines a light on a range of realities — land usurpation, widespread violence, community resistance — that Indigenous people face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition.

The work is performed in Spanish and Indigenous languages with English supertitles.

Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral is a theatre company dedicated to creating original works currently centered on the narratives and theatricalities of Mexico’s Indigenous people, touching themes of social, cultural, and human value with keen, artistic sensibility. Meaning “wayfarer” in the language of the Wixarika people, Makuyeika was formed after an extensive search across the country’s Indigenous communities, a project undertaken by Héctor Flores Komatsu as an inaugural recipient of the Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship.

Komatsu’s work has been presented in New York City at the Public Theatre’s Under the Radar, and Destinos Festival with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (U.S.), Wuzhen Theatre Festival (China), Santiago a Mil (Chile), Thalia Theatre (Germany), and in villages, festivals, and cities across Mexico. In addition to serving as artistic director of Makuyeika, Komatsu is a recent recipient of the Jóvenes Creadores grant by the National Fund for the Culture and Arts (FONCA) in Mexico and a fellow at Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Links:

• http://www.makuyeika.co/
• https://www.facebook.com/MakuyeikaCT
• https://www.instagram.com/makuyeikacolectivoteatral/

All tickets are general admission. Adults tickets are $25.00 and tickets for students with ID and youth ages 18 & under are $10.00.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=EB3BE97E-21F3-4A2E-B673-C9A116171B11.

Recommended for ages 14 and up.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/makuyeika-colectivo-teatral.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.