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HAND PROGRAM

 

SKIN HUNGER - PART II

A production under the direction of choreographer Joe Alter. 

coming soon:

July 28th, 2023

Lila López International Dance Festival, San Luis Potosí

Touch causes the secretion of hormones: oxytocin (the so-called “love hormone”), serotonin and dopamine (“happiness neurotransmitters”), reduces stress, eliminates the feeling of social exclusion, calms the heart rate and blood pressure, provides a sense of security, comfort, pleasure. “SKIN HUNGER” - “hunger for touch” - is a term used by psychotherapists, defining the result of long-term lack of physical contact, leading to a loss of health: weakening of the immune system, sleep disorders, frustration, anxiety and depression.

 

Skin Hunger II is the “sister” or companion piece to Skin Hunger, a work originally developed with Polish Dancers to examine and investigate this phenomenon.  

 

Skin Hunger II, while developed using similar prompts, questions, and structures as its companion piece, reflects the context in which it was made and the people who collaborated in its creation. 

 

The physicist Arthur Zajonc remarked in a lecture I attended that “relationship is constitutive of everything: everything is in relationship to everything else” …this piece attempts to acknowledge and embody some small part of that.

Gratitude to the dancers of Lux Boreal Compania de Danza, and Kamila…for your attention and generosity.

Special thanks to Leslie Seiters and Jess Humphrey

 

Deep gratitude and love to my wife Kendra and my daughters Gabriela and Veronika.

Lux Boreal Dance Company

Performers: 

Ilse Meza

emiliano castro

Gabriela Amaro

Raul Osuna

Henry Torres Blanceither

angel arambula

Claudia Mendoza*

Assembly Assistant

kamila alvarado*

Technical and Administrative Coordination: 

Jaquelyn Rodriguez

Public Relations and Media

omar beard

Graphic and audiovisual image design

Pamela Rios

Technical Support: 

Paola Hernandez

Choreographic Direction of SKIN HUNGER

joe alter

Artistic Direction Lux Boreal

henry torres

General Directorate Lux Boreal

angel arambula

* Residents Lux Boreal Dance Company

Lux Boreal is a resident company of

House of Culture of Tijuana in agreement with 

the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture

This show is supported by the Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects

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