Coyote Callings: Dancing in the Moonlight

Dancing in the Moonlight is an AZTLAN New-Works dance film project that explores the complexity of crossings from the perspective of the U.S. Southwest Frontera imaginary.  Moonlight reveals how tradition and modernity grate against and merge to create unique cultural worldviews.  In Moonlight, travelers engaged in crossings and traverse important cultural sites and symbols that are part and parcel of traditions on the move.

The journey of the travel is as rich as the destination and Moonlight illustrates the forging of realties through negotiations of memory, between-ness, and determination. Artistic Director Roén Salinas notes that “it is in the doing that positions the rich memories that form the points of departure for imagined futures.”  In this episode of Coyote Callings, the omnipresent truth-seers offer the sojourners hope by empowering them with the self-confidence of knowing where they come from in order to carrying this knowledge forward into the future realities.  As a borderland tale – Dancing in the Moonlight advances AZTLAN’s work of contemporary expressive Xicano/Latino dance.