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Mexico Now: Contemporary Dance Posters and Mexico Now: Sounds of Mexico

From November 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004
Plaza Lobby and Steinberg Room Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 (directions)

Mexico Now, a citywide festival of contemporary Mexican arts and culture, will present the work of over 100 Mexican filmmakers, architects, writers, dance, theater, music, and visual artists at 28 of New York City's leading arts venues in November 2004 . Mexico Now is a project of Arts International, the nation's only nonprofit organization solely devoted to international arts exchange. More information is available at www.mexiconowfestival.org.

At the end of the 1970s and during the 1980s, a new wave of Mexican choreographers and dancers could be seen in parks, plazas, streets, fountains, church atriums, and other public sites, finding new audiences and alternative performance spaces. The independent groups of contemporary dance, as they call themselves, include, among others, Antares, Asaltodiario, Barro Rojo, Cebra, and Contradanza. Their work is characterized by a search for new styles, forms, techniques, and themes to reflect the social, political, and economic climate of change in Mexico. Posters and photographs were donated by the companies to Americas Exchange Program for Dance for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, as part of a continuing collaborative effort. Posters will be mounted in the Plaza corridor gallery; additional archival and multi-media artifacts will be on display in the Dance Division, on the third floor. In addition, Sounds of Mexico, an exhibition of artifacts and audio material, is on display in the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, on the third floor. These exhibitions are part of the city-wide Mexico Now Festival, a project of Arts International.