A photo of Kayla & Vanessa. On the left is Kayla Hamilton, a Black woman with locs is wearing a black shirt and pants. She is in profile and has her leg bent leaning on Vanessa’s purple walker Pluto. She is holding her folded white cane. Vanessa is a Chicana woman with caramel skin. She is leaning on a metal gate door. She is wearing a goth outfit. They are outdoors with walls in the back framing them. The photo is washed with an electric blue futuristic color.

Kayla and Vanessa | photo by Whitney Browne

A photo of Vanessa, who is a Chicana woman with caramel skin is in an glowing cube. She is standing with her walker at a diagonal as she looks behind her as she carries one acrylic canvas behind her back. She is wearing a long sleeve shiny black holographic dress with a long leather coat.

Vanessa | photo by Maya Umemoto Gorman

A photo of Vanessa who is a Chicana woman with caramel skin wearing a holographic blue dress hoodie leaning against a wall where there are two dancers projected above her. India who is a Black fat cisgendered woman, she is on the floor backing away. Lu who is lightskinned East Asian person is looking up from their space. The projected backdrop are wires, computer chips, cords with two pulled out blank screen on the right and left of the stage.

A still image of Vanessa’s work titled “Rain Glass Vortex”, Dancers in photo: India Harville, Lu Chen, & Vanessa Hernández Cruz. 2024 | photo courtesy of artist

A photo of Vanessa & Kayla. Kayla Hamilton is a Black woman with locs and is wearing a black shirt and pants. They are standing on top of a concrete bench as she is curving her torso & arm to the side as she is holding her white cane. Vanessa who is a who is a Chicana woman with caramel skin wearing a goth outfit is sliding on a concrete table towards the same direction of Kayla. Her walker Pluto is behind her.

Vanessa and Kayla | photo by Whitney Browne

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Step 1: Contact the Tour Coordinator

Contact the tour coordinator listed below for information on this project’s tour dates, and to discuss joining a project’s NDP tour and receiving a Presentation Grant.

Vanessa Hernández Cruz
Dance Artist
galaxiesdance@gmail.com
tel. 1-310-571-5842
https://www.galaxiesdance.info

Step 2: Apply for a Presentation Grant

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The following organizations have partnered with this project:

  • Movement Research New York, NY
  • The Music Center Los Angeles, LA
  • The School of Theater and Dance at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
  • UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance Los Angeles, LA
  • Velocity Dance Center Seattle, WA

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