Boca del Lupo: Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre
In Broken Tailbone, celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada
Date/Time: Mar 13 2020, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, Performance Works | Event calendar1218 Cartwright St
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Cost: $25.00
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DJ Don Pedro creates an irresistible musical environment to get even the most reluctant dancer up on their feet! Daring, sexy, and, above all, fun.
Carmen’s performance consists of an extended salsa dance lesson that flows into her remarkable stories of intimacy, politics, culture and the forgotten origins of the salsa. Everyone in the audience dances as the evening swiftly transforms into one of the dance halls Carmen vividly describes (in English and/or Spanish), bringing us deeply into one of Canada’s most unique milieus…the Latinx dance halls that many people have never heard of.
“Carmen Aguirre’s kinetic Broken Tailbone is part salsa lesson, part political and personal memoir – and all sweaty fun.” (The Globe and Mail)
Performer: Carmen Aguirre
DJ: Pedro Chamale
Director: Brian Quirt
Producer: Brittany Ryan
Designer: Michelle Ramsay
Produced by Nightswimming
Boca del Lupo’s presentation series is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, BC Arts Council, BC Gaming, and the City of Vancouver.
Carmen Aguirre is an author, actor, and playwright. She was born in Santiago, Chile to parents who were teachers and activists. Her parents were supporters of Allende, and went into exile after Pinochet’s coup. Carmen was six years old when her family fled the country in December of 1973, three months after Allende’s overthrow. Her family landed in California and then made their way by land to Vancouver, Canada, where they were accepted as political refugees.
Carmen has written and co-written twenty-five plays, including Chile Con Carne, in which she explores exile and internalized racism through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, The Refugee Hotel, about the first batch of Chilean refugees to arrive at a Vancouver hotel in 1974, The Trigger, about a violent childhood rape, Blue Box, which interweaves two stories, one about being hunted by the secret police when she was in the Chilean resistance, and the other about chasing an unavailable man, and adaptations for the stage of Eduardo Galeano’s, Jorge Amado’s, and Julio Cortazar’s work.
“Aguirre’s a vibrant, no-nonsense, innovative artist who beautifully and generously demonstrates the power of radical resistance through dance, music, and developing deeper connections to our bodies, broken tailbone and all.” – Andrea Warner, The Georgia Straight
Broken Tailbone was created and developed by Nightswimming with assistance from Aluna Theatre, Toronto and Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver. The playwright acknowledges the generous support of the 2016 Banff Playwrights Lab – a partnership between Banff Centre and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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