SOLD OUT: Soy Malintzin: A Contemporary Dance Performance by the Guadalupe Dance Company
Commissioned by the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s dance company has created an original production inspired by Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, a special exhibition currently on view at SAMA.
Soy Malintzin re-envisions the controversial legacy of Malintzin/La Malinche, an enslaved Indigenous woman who served as a translator and cultural interpreter for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and became the mother of his first-born son.
Through the collective work of the Guadalupe Dance Company members and the choreographic artistry of Maestro Juan Carlos Gaytan of Colima, México, the production draws attention to different aspects of La Malinche, identifying with her as a woman in unimaginable circumstances.
The performance will be presented at the historic Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207.
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Commissioned by the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s dance company has created an original production inspired by Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, a special exhibition currently on view at SAMA.
Soy Malintzin re-envisions the controversial legacy of Malintzin/La Malinche, an enslaved Indigenous woman who served as a translator and cultural interpreter for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and became the mother of his first-born son.
Through the collective work of the Guadalupe Dance Company members and the choreographic artistry of Maestro Juan Carlos Gaytan of Colima, México, the production draws attention to different aspects of La Malinche, identifying with her as a woman in unimaginable circumstances.
The performance will be presented at the historic Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207.
Presented by the San Antonio Museum of Art. Generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Latin American Fund.
About the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center: The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) was founded in 1980 as a multidisciplinary, nonprofit organization and is one of the largest community-based cultural arts organizations in the U.S. Its mission is to cultivate, promote and preserve traditional and contemporary Chicano, Latino and Native American arts and culture through multidisciplinary programming.
The historic Guadalupe Theater, located at 1301 Guadalupe Street, operated as the Westside's most opulent movie theater from 1940 until it fell into disrepair in 1970. In the spring of 1984, the reconstruction of the theater was completed and equipped for stage and screen presentations including a small art gallery.
The Guadalupe continues to present programming in music, dance, literature, film, theater, and visual arts offering an annual array of classes and workshops in music, theater, and dance.
Photo credit: Photographer Edward Benavides.
