Berman Dance Performance: Apertures, borders and fruit trees
Artists Amalia Colón-Nava and Jon Gruver will perform in the Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes exhibition.
Details
Apertures, borders and fruit trees is a piece that responds to Enrique Bostelmann’s work while integrating Amalia Colón-Nava and Jon Gruver’s personal aesthetic and tender memories of Spanish nursery rhymes. Amalia’s dances reflect on feelings from returning to Mexico with her grandparents after many years of living in the United States. The piece asks the audience to imagine the impact that borders have on the lives of Latinx people living in the United States. The artists, Amalia and Jon, share bits of themselves and their lives through music and dance.
We invite you to arrive at 6:30 p.m. to enjoy a light reception and take in the exhibition before the performance begins at 7 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. Please consider adding a donation to your ticket price to support more free events like this at the Berman Museum of Art.
About the Performers
Amalia Colón-Nava
Amalia Gabriel Colón Nava is a chicanx multi-disciplinary artist and farmer based in Lenapehoking/Philadelphia. She has a background in dance performance but expresses her artistry through cooking food, agriculture, plant art, storytelling, film, and writing. She is a co-worker owner of Dirtbaby Farm.
Jon Gruver
Jon Gruver is a Colombian-American composer, performer, and educator based in Philadelphia. Jon’s compositional works look to imbue a heavy metal ethos into western art music whereas his musical interpretations lay in the performing of Latin America’s various squeezebox traditions. He is also a co-producer and performer of the theatrical work, “The Wake: Step Beyond the Veil”.
