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Enrique Villacreses: GoldenSociety
September 25, 2021
By Jordan Levin
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Dance and filmmaker/human rocket Enrique Villacreses takes a sci fi flight in GoldenSociety, following his wild imagination and his exhilarating, double-take inducing, hiphop-gaga-modern movement style to create a surreal vision of futuristic people in a subterranean world.
“When I improvise and create it’s intuitive – following what your body wants to do so you create a space for it to be genuine and organic,” says Villacreses. GoldenSociety was inspired partly by an encounter with outdoor sculptures in Tel Aviv, “I thought, what if they came to life?” and partly by an episode of Futurama, the beloved bizarro adult animated series, about mutant humans living beneath NYC.
Brought to life by Enrique, 24, and four dancers, a composer and sculptor from Movement Collective, which Enrique formed as a creative platform for young Miami artists. Many, like him, went to New World School of the Arts; he graduated in 2020, right into the pandemic. But that hasn’t stopped him from making dances and films for venues ranging from ScreenDance Miami to Perez Art Museum Miami to Instagram and more.
Villacreses asked his composer to draw from the music of mystical medieval composer Hildegard Von Bingen. It’s another way of going from a visionary past to an imaginary future by way of Miami – right here, right now. “Follow your intuition, and it will get you there,” he says. “That’s how I’ve been doing it.”
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Jordan Levin
Jordan Levin has been writing about Miami since the early ’90s, including 18 years at the Miami Herald. As a freelancer, she has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Latina, Billboard, and Ocean Drive magazines, among others. Before turning to journalism, she was a dancer/performer in New York City and an arts presenter in Miami.
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