Licia Perea presents Orlando Of A Thousand Years

         Licia Perea, recipient of the prestigious City of Los Angeles Performing Arts Fellowship 2001, has created Orlando Of A Thousand Years, based on the novel Orlando by Virginia Woolf. This project stems from Perea’s passion for Virginia Woolf’s writings and the ideals that correlate to her own in Perea’s ongoing exploration of women’s issues.

        In Orlando she looks at gender in a different light. Using movement (soft shoe flamenco, modern and aerial), spoken text and stunning visuals, Perea asks how do women and men experience love, power, truth, ecstasy, bravery and solitude? Perea will follow Woolf’s classic tale of a soul traveling through time, each lifetime being “born” as a different gender but with a memory of it's past lives. Perea’s interpretation changes the cultural context from Woolf’s British soul to a Spanish soul making its’ way through Spanish history, from the 12th century to the present.

        Perea has teamed up with an eclectic group of talented artists/designers: Composers—Nathan Birnbaum, Joe Zeytoonian, Marcello De Francisci and Joseph Julian Gonzalez; Sets—Alicia Hoge, Jason Adams; Costumes—Susan Cox; Lights—Wouter Feldbusch, and directed by the talented Jose Garcia Davis. Together they have created an exciting evening of visual, visceral, and thought provoking dance theater not to be missed!

                                                   

© 2001 Licia Perea