Jan 27, 2020
Alicia Bauman-Morales is an Oakland born Boricua tomboi, a queer woman, a dancer/organizer/performer/trouble maker. During our conversation Alicia brings the wealth of her Ancestry forward by calling the names of many in her blood lineage as she speaks of coming from fantastical storytellers, people committed to doing things on their own terms. Alicia shares a bit about her piece: huracán: storm medicine - a personal dance story, living altar and town hall about destruction, translation, and the transformative power of storms. And she names some of her influences, as she shares her Journey of learning how to nurture/and be in her body.
Alicia's performance practice is shaped by Oakland turf dance (she grew up in Oakland and her first studio was the sidewalk), tomboy physicality, house dance, martial arts, kitchen and backyard salsa, altar building, western modern forms and, recently, Step. She is or has been a proud collaborator/performer with Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, NWA Project, Renegade Performance Group, MBDance, Brown Girls Burlesque, Roots and River Productions and PISO Proyecto, and has shown work in four of the five boroughs of New York and Puerto Rico. She is a proud organizer with ACRE, Artists Co-Creating Real Equity.
Regarding organizing in solidarity with people in Puerto Rico right Alicia suggests, "direct support of our people in PR via donations of money and supplies, and by writing notes...and putting political pressure on politicians in the U.S" and check out: Colectivo Ilé https://colectivo-ile.org, a women's collective doing racial justice work and community sustainability through women's entrepreneurship.
During our conversation Alicia names some of her teachers and
influences/including:
Amara Tabor-Smith http://www.deepwatersdance.com
Arthur Aviles http://www.baadbronx.org/arthur-aviles-typical-theater.html
jumatatu m. poe https://www.jumatatu.org
Luisah Teish https://www.yeyeluisahteish.com
Marc Bamuthi Joseph https://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/B305518
More about Alicia at:
https://www.whoyopeopleis.com/season-2