For Immediate Media Release:
iniguai presents
ANCESTORS REFLECTIONS Curated by Dåkot-ta Alcantara-Camacho
Greeted by a sonic wall of ancient chants, Ancestors Reflections is a groundbreaking ceremonial installation guiding the public through thresholds where “land meets urban realities.”
Activated through chant, dance, spoken word, video installations, collectively built altars, reggae, folk, and hip hop music, the show offers healing prayers for our island, planet, and all living beings.
Staged at Guam Art Exhibit (GAX) at Agaña Shopping Center for a one night only interactive sacred performance, Ancestors Reflections is the culmination of a two-month workshop collaboration with Sagan Kotturan Chamoru and Our Islands Are Sacred.
Curated by internationally based performance artist, facilitator, and cultural advocate, Dåkot-ta Alcantara-Camacho, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, returns to Guahan to produce this work through Iniguai, an emerging artists collective of Guåhan-based artists, bringing integrated approaches towards contemporary cultural expression.
“Ancestors Reflections questions how we might acknowledge our ancestors today, through collective embodiment of genealogy, values and responsibilities,” says Alcantara-Camacho.
The public is invited to participate in the Chamorro traditional value of inafa’maolek by bringing a piece of their ancestor’s land — coconut, leaves, special rocks, branches, logs, flowers — and offerings of pugua’, pugas (uncooked rice), tinifok (woven goods), coconut, hard candies, or ancestors portraits.
Next, Alcantara-Camacho heads to Hawaii to perform a solo hip hop theatre work Guåhu Guåhan, before a journey to Aotearoa (New Zealand) to support internationally acclaimed Atamira Contemporary Dance Company’s new work Mitimiti, empowering Chamoru approaches to international collaboration and cultural exchange.
Iniguai artists and special guests include musicians Primitiva Muña, Eva Aguon Cruz, Guam Massive Sound, Josh Dee (of Iyani) & Ian Catling; dance artists, Alethea Bordallo, Isla Rae, & poets Shannon Balannon, Ryan Leon Guerrero, Willa the Mic Killa, and creative space-makers Talagi, & Ann Lizama.
Ancestors Reflections premieres one night only
Location: GAX | Guam Art Exhibit (2nd floor Agana Shopping Center)
Time/Date: 6-10pm | Friday, September 4th
Admission by donation of inafa’maolek
For more information visit tinyurl.com/iniguaiatgax
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