Claudia Escobar on collaborating on CIGARRA & Guerreiras Nessa Arte
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CIGARRA & Guerreiras Nessa Arte
Trained as an architect in her home city of Medellín, Colombia, Claudia Escobar takes both a poetic and critical approach to her work; each film, illustration, or photo is an opportunity to experiment, ask questions and take risks.
She is the director of the documentary Dear Homeland about the Mexican singer Diana Gameros. Escobar has been nominated for three local Emmy awards, awarded one, and won two Webby awards for her work as co-creator and producer of the If Cities Could Dance series, produced by KQED. As an artist who had lived outside of her country, she is drawn to stories about migration that challenge the artificial divisions we have invented around power.
To go to Brazil, Claudia says: “where Mestra Márcia Cigarra was born, where all this started… is a very, very powerful thing, because even from here, she has touched the lives of many, many new generations of women with more opportunities to get in there…So it is an honor. And it’s a challenge, a big challenge for me because I normally make regular films. But this, this is kind of like dancing with your elders on this stage. It is a challenge that I love.”
CIGARRA & Guerreiras Nessa Arte will be presented by ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco’s Performance Company and special guest artists from May 3-5 at San Francisco’s Z SPACE.