Program Overview

Program Details

The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) offers a variety of programs, including residencies, commissions, and curated events.

Residencies

• The residency program provides artists with the opportunity to develop new work in a supportive and well-equipped environment.
• Artists have access to EMPAC's state-of-the-art facilities, including theaters, studios, and equipment.

Curated Events

• EMPAC's curated events feature a range of performances, including dance, theater, music, and time-based visual art.
• The events are carefully selected to showcase innovative and experimental work.

Commissions

• EMPAC offers commissioning opportunities for artists to create new work.
• The commissions provide artists with the resources and support needed to develop and premiere new pieces.

Research

• EMPAC's research program focuses on the intersection of art, technology, and science.
• The program includes research events, such as lectures, workshops, and symposia.

About the Program

• The program is led by a team of experienced curators and producers.
• The team works closely with artists to develop and present new work.

Event Details

Flota

• Flota is a dance performance that takes place on freestanding walls built to form a corner, with live video projections of the suspended dancer on other surfaces.
• The audience chooses where to position themselves and where to look.
• The performance existed as a solo performance, but at EMPAC, the artist experimented with site-adaptive iterations of the set-up, as well as shooting footage for an installation version.

Tethered: Vertical Performance

• Tethered is a vertical performance program that features two residencies and work-in-progress performances that navigate vertical space through aerial performance.
• The program includes a performance by Rodrigo Pardo and B·rbara Foulkes.
• The performance took place on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Artist Details

B·rbara Foulkes

• B·rbara Foulkes is a choreographer and contemporary dance artist who performs and teaches vertical dance with harness.
• She is part of Colectivo AM and teaches composition and vertical dance with harness at Casa de Artes y Circo Contempor·neo.
• Foulkes is originally from Argentina and now lives in Mexico City.