Zero Point Arts and Zoe Dance presents TALVEZ, a contemporary dance company based in Quito, Ecuador, for a fall residency centered on choreographer Marcela Correa’s interactive work “Manipulo”

Special international dance showcase from Ecuador

“Manipulo” transforms the stage into a living Japanese garden. Instead of raked sand and still stones, audiences find tables, dancers, and loose stones waiting to be placed. As audience members move the stones — arranging them, testing their weight, deciding where they belong — the dancers respond in kind, and the sound of stone meeting table is captured by contact microphones and turned into live music. The pace, the shape of the space, and the relationships between performers all shift depending on what the audience chooses to do, so no two performances unfold the same way twice.

This fall, TALVEZ tours to Somerville to restage the piece with local dancers under Correa’s direction. “At TALVEZ, we believe that dance is not simply something to be watched, but something that can be experienced and created together. MANÍPULO invites audiences to become active participants in the performance, making choices that directly shape what happens onstage. Bringing this work to Somerville and recreating it with dancers from the Boston community opens another exciting layer of dialogue. It is an opportunity for artists from different backgrounds to listen, play, take risks, and discover something together in real time,” – Marcela Correa, founder and artistic director of TALVEZ cuerpo_movimiento.

Date & Time for Manipulo
October 16 and 17, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: SomArt @ the Hive
561 Windsor St, Somerville
Price: $25
Ticket Link: https://zeropointarts.org/events/manipulo/

ABOUT TALVEZ – Founded in Quito, Ecuador, in 2008 by Marcela Correa, TALVEZ cuerpo_movimiento is a contemporary dance company dedicated to improvisation as a language of artistic creation. Through playful experimentation, deep listening, and real-time composition, TALVEZ explores the relationships between body, time, space, and audience, creating performances that embrace uncertainty, interaction, and the unexpected.
https://www.talvezdanza-usfq.com

ABOUT ZERO POINT ARTS / ZOE DANCE — Zero Point Arts is a presenting project seeking to present new and underground work in the Greater Boston area. Zoe Dance has been creating performance works since 2002 and is a performance company focusing on pan disciplinary and multi-disciplinary work.
https://www.zeropointarts.org

ABOUT SOMART — SomArt is a program of the Somerville Arts & Culture Division which seeks to support the creation of new work in performance in Somerville. As a municipal-run program, SomArt is unique in providing subsidized space for artist workspace under the umbrella of City government.
https://somartspace.org https://somervilleartscouncil.org

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Manípulo was created by Talvez, a contemporary dance company based at the College of Communication and Contemporary Arts (COCOA) at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.