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“Echoing Memories in a Distant Future” by Vanessa

A graphic with a photo of Vanessa, who is a Chicana woman with caramel skin. She is lying down on the concrete with her arm reaching out. Her walker Pluto is balancing on top of her. She is wearing a gothic long sleeve blouse with a flowered black & red skirt. The text above reads: “Echoing Memories in a Distant Future” Vanessa Hernández Cruz. The orange banner has text that reads: “National Dance Project Awardee.”

UCLA Disability Studies is proud to announce that Dancing Disability Lab alumna Vanessa Hernández Cruz has been awarded a National Dance Project Production Grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). With the support of this prestigious grant, Vanessa will develop and tour a new evening-length dance work titled Echoing Memories in a Distant Future, set to premiere in Fall 2027 at CAP (Center for the Art of Performance) UCLA. This work will expand on Vanessa’s innovative performance modality of live-streaming six QTBIPOC Disabled artists on stage which features fellow Dancing Disability Lab alumna Kayla Hamilton as Vanessa’s duet partner.

 

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