Move American

Move American: Border by Sarah Annie Navarrete

September 28, 2020 | by
Director / Videographer / Editor Sarah Annie Navarrete // Choreography created in collaboration w/ dancers  // Performed by Alexa Capareda, Jaylin Lane, Taryn Lavery & Erica Saucedo  // Music Michael Wall // Poem an adaptation of The Border: A Double Sonnet by Alberto Rios

Across vast geographies and wide cultural boundaries our humanity unites us. Border, is a visual poem meditating on the symbolic, identity and territorial borders that divide us.

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Originally from El Paso, Texas, Sarah Annie Navarrete is an Austin based artist working in performance, photography and film. She received her BFA in Dance at New Mexico State University and she is an alumni of Austin School of Photography. Described as a “dancer and photographer, floating skillfully between these worlds” (Austin Chronicle), Sarah‘s work explores kinetic narratives through an emotional tone as they relate to the human body, its physical potential and its mediation.

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ARTISTS TESTIFY WITH EMBODIED STORIES, COMPOSE THE ART THAT WILL PRESENT THE HISTORY OFTEN BURIED AND ERASED, AND CREATIVELY ENACT THE BETTER WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE. TO SUPPORT THE MASSIVE MOBILIZATION FOR CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES AND HELP SUSTAIN THE MOMENTUM OF THE MOVEMENT ALL THE WAY TO THE ELECTION, WE PRESENT MOVE AMERICAN FROM SEPTEMBER 7 – NOVEMBER 2: A SERIES OF SHORT DANCE FILMS FEATURING A DIFFERENT SELF-DIRECTED MOVEMENT ARTIST FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, EXAMINING OR SHARING A SOCIAL JUSTICE/POLITICAL/HUMAN RIGHTS TOPIC. THESE DANCE FILMS ARE INTENDED TO SERVE AS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SORTS, WITH A CLEAR ACTION ITEM LINKED TO EACH FILM CALLING ON FOLKS TO PREPARE AND TAKE ACTION TO VOTE.