CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater

Renowned dance artists holly johnston and Ana Maria Alvarez, mothers, activists, and community leaders, collaborate to create Roots of Loving Us. This multimodal choreographic work uses somatic healing and ancestral technologies of dance, music, and imagery. It explores origin stories shaped by biological uprooting, unchosen separation, and the re-rooting of bodies, altering family tree DNA. CONTRA-TIEMPO dancers bring this work to life through their embodied knowledge of afro-latine movement practices, focusing on narratives of adoption, foster families and bioadaptive families. Through community collaborations, cross-sensory experiences, and innovative production elements, this work is a testament to lives transformed by the choice to love forever. 

Caretakers of the Land/Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge that we live, work, dance, and create on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva/Gabrielino peoples who are the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands)

Estimated Artist Fee: CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist dance Theater is committed to engaging with communities for a week prior to a performance. It is essential to our creative process and an extension of our overall values. We are also committed to paying our artists living wages with the goal of paying them thriving wages in the near future. This artist fee reflects these commitments. $33,000 touring fee includes a week of engagements + lodging + travel + payment for a community cast.