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Mariana Valencia\'s book is both a document of the unarchivable and a \'shout out to the apocalyptic world we\'re living in.\'"--Paul Legault.
Thirty-something, she proves, is not too early for a retrospective, which is, after all, just a way of taking stock of where you are."--Siobhan Burke, The New York Times "In BOUQUET, the notoriously difficult task of translating dance into language is taken on full force by a master practitioner.
Bouquet is a multidimensional monologue, as physical and musical as it is verbal.
Valencia, who is in her mid-30s, has been working for the past few years in an autobiographical mode, striking a tone that can be both funny and mournful.
Or as she puts it, \'a self isn\'t just itself.\' A self is part of an ensemble, one stem in a bouquet....
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Valencia is the only person onstage, but one idea she imparts is that we are never alone: We are the product of our communities and histories, our parents and friends, songs we\'ve heard and dances we\'ve learned. "UNASSUMING & DECEPTIVELY TOUCHING....
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Living between choreography, autobiography, poetry, and standup, Valencia reckons with individualism in her everyday life as a dancer as she moves across the United States, Mexico, the Balkans and into the geography of her past.
Mariana Valencia\'s Bouquet is a borderless form of memoir.
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