“Metal Plastic Skin” Disability Dance Creation

Metal, Plastic, Skin is a new Disability contemporary dance solo getting ready to premiere at The Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles this summer! Help raise a minimum of $8,000 by July 15, 2023 to help sustain this work!

About

Vanessa Hernández Cruz is a Chicana Disabled dance artist seeking to bring together Disability & contemporary dance into the Los Angeles dance ecosystem.

Her new evening-length work explores vulnerability fatigue as a Disabled Chicana woman & how medical equipment has been a form of freedom, survival and assimilation in this inaccessible world. Vanessa will be utilizing her visual artwork & poetry for this performance.

This is the first time Vanessa will be performing at a Summer Dance Festival in Los Angeles! Your contribution will help bring this work to life and will amplify a multi-marginalized Disabled dance artist!

You can learn more about Vanessa & her work by checking out her website & Instagram:

Website: https://www.galaxiesdance.info

IG: https://www.instagram.com/galaxiesdance/

Breakdown

Help raise a minimum of $8,000 by July 15!

Below breaks down the costs to develop this work that includes equitable pay for her collaborators:

* Art Supplies: $600

* Artist Fee: $1,500

* Rehearsal Space for 2 hours for 3x a week for 11 weeks : $1,386~3,300

Breakdown:

-Closest studio to home rate: $50/hr: $3,300

-A bit further out rate $25/hr: 1,386

* Costuming: $1,000

* Music: $1,000

* Documentation: $800

Other ways you can support:

* Donate rehearsal space in Los Angeles

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Thank you for your time and I am grateful to be in community with you!