Aura
"Aura", a ravishing collaboration between Los Angeles-based Rosanna Gamson/World Wide and Mexico City's Contradanza, turned a Carlos Fuentes short story into an erotic fever dream that merged dance, theater, music and literature."
Brett Campbell, The Wall Street Journal
September 21, 2005
The evening-length dance theater piece for ten performers, Aura, is inspired by and based on Carlos Fuentes’ novella of the same name.
Two artists--
Rosanna Gamson, artistic director of Rosanna Gamson / World Wide , Los Angeles,
and Cecilia Appleton, artistic director of Contradanza, Mexico City, explore
the duality of culture, language, identity and movement implicit in the text.
Developed in collaboration with the performers in Mexico and the United States, Aura is performed by five dancers from each company as a dual-layered interpretation of Fuentes’ gothic love-story of inner and outer self.
Premiere: Mexico 2004
Teatro Raul Flores Canelo Del CENART
Mexico City
REDCAT
Los Angeles by Cecilia Appleton and Rosanna Gamson
text by Carlos Fuentes
music by David Gamson and Alejandro Escuar