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15 de may. de 2019 · New York City dancer and filmmaker Gabri Christa was intent on fully capturing the story of her mother Magdalena before dementia caused the beautiful moments of her mom’s life, along with some of its sadness, to completely fade from memory.
Savoneta was filmed on location at “Landhuis Savonet,” one of the oldest Plantation Houses in the hemisphere. The house was originally built in 1660-1664, an assignment by Mathias Beck, Vice–Director under Peter Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant was Governor of both New Amsterdam (New York City) and the Netherlands Antilles.
6 de ene. de 2021 · This Little Black Doll. Below the first part of the text of performance piece Magdalena. When the house opens, I Gabri Christa, sit in the audience and talk while the lights are still on. In the space sits a doll on a suitcase. We all look at it, while talking the lights dim and we are all left watching the doll only in a spotlight, while we ...
another building is a series of films that take place in and around historic buildings and sites connected to the Dutch Colonial History. As an artistic response to a place, another building aims to create curiosity in a location and history by contrasting contemporary art (dance, music, digital film) with the site and its culture. Each story ...
Choreographer/dancer Gabri Christa sees the world from a unique perspective. She has described herself as “a member of a crossroads culture,” and admits that such identity brings with it a kind of multicultural baggage. A New Yorker since 1992, via Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Netherlands and her native Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean, Christa?s ...
Gabri Christa GABRI’S MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMANITY THROUGH THE ARTS. Born and raised in the Caribbean island nation of Curaçao, Gabri is a member of a crossroads culture, and her work expresses the politics and poetics of interchanging races, rhythms, and histories.
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