where this takes us

20 minutes | Where This Takes Us is a twenty-minute dance film that explores themes of intimacy, risk, communion and alienation and involves the talents of four contemporary dancers and twenty social tango dancers culled from a close-knit community of artists and friends in Los Angeles with roots all over the world. This work uses dance as a metaphor for the way we embrace each other literally and figuratively. It emphasizes social tango as a space (both personal and communal) where bodies come into contact and explore an exchange based on mutual connection; a means of communing with other human beings not colored by its more common associations of sexuality and seduction.

Choreography — Rosanna Tavarez
Music — Cafe Tacuba; selections from "Reves/Yo Soy"
Director — Miguel Navarro
Director of Photography — Guillermo Franco
First Assistant Camera — Victor Avila
Gaffer — Patrick Hubbard
Editors — Andres Baez & Miguel Navarro
Producer — Rosanna Tavarez
Dancers — Shawn Bracha, Matthew Krumpe, Sabrina Phillip, Rosanna Tavarez
Tango Dancers — Ceren Budak, Laquita Cleare, Eric Dandridge, Cecilia De Lorenzo, Natalie Gearhart, Samuel Greene, John Kegel, Hyung Kim, Petra Korn, Laurent Lazure, Camilo Mejia, Laura Mingo, Rachel McDonald, Reza Nader, Ana Maria Piedrahita, Johanna Seigmann, Hasan Seremet, Armenae Stepanian, Craig Terry, Avi Win