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First Woman on the Moon
Elia Arce is an internationally known artist and cultural activist working in a wide variety of media including performance, experimental theater, film/video, writing and installation. She is the recipient of the J. Paul Getty Individual Artist Award, The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation and a 1999 nominee for the Herb Alpert/CalArts Award in Theater. She received a New Voices Fellowship/Ford Foundation Initiative and a Fulbright Specialists Award to teach performance art at the National University of Costa Rica. She was a featured artist at the International Photography Biennial in Bamako, Mali this year.
First Woman on the Moon explores a series of places both physical and emotional. From the dark jungles of Costa Rica to the barren desert using body, language, sound and video. This piece is a re-creation from 2001, which received the Masterpiece Award from the National Performance Network.
$12 at the door; $10 advanced online; $8 with student ID
Note: Performance contains nudity.
"First Woman on the Moon" is a National Performance Network NPN) Re-Creation Fund Project sponsored by MACLA in partnership with Links Hall, Diverse Works and NPN. For more information: www.npnweb.org
Support provided by:
Arts Council Silicon Valley, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, a Cultural Affairs education grant from the City of San Jose, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Castellano Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and MACLA donors. MACLA is a participant in the grantee network of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.
Video Credit: Aisen Caro Chacin
Image Credit: Martin Cox
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510 S. 1st Street
San Jose, CA 95113
United States
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