Wishes, Longing and Heartbreak:
Embodied Love in David Copperfield
Yvonne Montoyafeat. Abigail González, Cara Buchanan, Sadie Beebe, Kiana Lynn Macayan Anderson, Jennifer Saracino, Tegan Watkins
EL TIRADITO SHRINE
choreography, soundscape, installation
Media on this page include documentation of the process of making the pieces and its performance at the exhibition’s installation at MOCA Tucson.
Yvonne Montoya is a mother, choreographer, and founding director of Safos Dance Theatre. Montoya was a 2021 PlainView Fellow, a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, a 2019-2020 Dance/USA Artist Fellow, recipient of the 2020 MAP Fund, and the first Arizona-based artist to receive the 2020 New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project Production Grant. In 2022, Safos received the National Performance Network Creation Fund Grant and the National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Project Grant for her piece “Stories from Home.” She was also recently featured in KQED’s If Cities Could Dance. www.yvonnemontoya.co
"Wishes, Longing & Heartbreak: Embodied Love in David Copperfield" Yvonne Montoya © 2022 Choreography by Yvonne Montoya in collaboration with the Big Book Field Studio Team, with performances by Abigail González, Cara Buchanan, Sadie Beebe, Kiana Lynn Macayan Anderson, Jennifer Saracino, Tegan Watkins. Rehearsal Assistance by Sadie Beebe. Soundscape “El Tiradito” was recorded by Sadie Beebe and arranged by Yvonne Montoya. Produced for Big Book Field Studio © 2022