Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind
April 18 - 21
a world premiere theatrical concert
by Martha Gonzalez and Virginia Grise
Directed by Kendra Ware
Featuring: Live Music by Martha Gonzalez, Tylana Enomoto and Juan Perez from the Grammy Award-Winning band Quetzal and a performance by Lulu Matute
Stories and songs about sharp shooters and earthmovers, helicopters in the sky and women that fly from Their Dogs Came with Them, the epic novel by Helena María Viramontes.
a todo dar productions presents with Campo Santo at the Magic Theatre 2024
Created in collaboration with musical director Martha Gonzalez, writer Virginia Grise, and director Kendra Ware Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind is at once live performance, a concert, an album, theatre. Stories from Their Dogs Came with Them by Helena María Viramontes are brought to life in the multifaceted sonic landscape—a mix of Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz, funk, rock and gospel—performed by Martha Gonzalez, Tylana Enomoto, and Juan Perez. The music is matched by a rich visual world created by set designer Tanya Orellana, video artist Yee Eun Nam, lighting designer gg Torres, and costume designer David Arevalo.
Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University, Department of Literatures in English and Critical Race Studies Series at Cornell University, Las Maestras Center for Xicana/x Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice at UC Santa Barbara, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts and NPN with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the National Latino THeatre Initiative and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program administered in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons. The album was developed in residence at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University, Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.