Nuclear Dance

This dance was inspired by Picasso's painting Guernica, Olavarrieta's Nuclear Poem, and Julian Carrillo's Sonido Trece. Both the painting and the poem are protests against war and nuclear weapons. This dance shows the beautiful forms of the human being and their impotence against a nuclear war.

The bodies of the dancers make forms of this world in suspension and unstable from the explosion of nuclear bombs. It represents the anguish of the people and the destruction nuclear weapons cause.

The dance represents the hopeless and futile nature of nuclear war.

Choreography: Elsy Contreras
Dancers: Ballet Hispanico of NY
Venues: Videos were first aired on Canal Once's Noche a Noche in Mexico City, and recently on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Photographs are at the "River-to-River" Dance Festival in front of Ford Foundation Headquarters.