KANAY
Lighting Designer, Anamaria Morales
Director Roxana Barbara.
Photo by Kevin Alvarez Cordova. Kanay-Apuntes Americanos, Koubek Center, Miami Dade College, October 27-28, 2023.
Director & Choreographer: Roxana Barba
Performers: Briana Mendez, Lize-Lotte Pitlo, Enrique Villacreces, Roxana Barba
Quechua narrator: Bertha Olivia Pacheco Rosas
Videos: Leo Castaneda, Marco Herrera, Claudio Marcotulli & Roxana Barba
Audiovisual edit: Claudio Marcotulli, Roxana Barba
Music: Carlos Dominguez
Sculpture design: Marco Herrera
Sculpture production: Claudio Marcotulli & Lili(ana)
Costume design: Lisu Vega
Lighting design: Ana Maria Morales
Video tech: Rodrigo Arcaya
Texts: Roxana Barba, with exception of quote from Gabriela Wiener’s Huaco Retrato
Poster: Marco Herrera
Kanay-Apuntes Americanos was presented by Barba Marcotulli in co-production with The Koubek Center with funding support from John S. and James L.Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge Award (2019). Research was done in artistic residency with Correlación Contemporánea (Peru) and in consultation with visual artist Marco Herrera, and historians Maritza Villavicencio and Carol Damian
Kanay, Roxana Barba’s latest multimedia work is a performance “Apuntes Americanos-Kanay” are rooted in ancient history— 3,000 years before Christ history, on pre-Incan civilizations, cultures that had a deep study of cosmology and relationships with the natural world.
“My role as the Lighting Designer was to evoke the textures of sand and abstract contrasts through dynamic movement-based lighting. Working closely with the video team, I integrated multiple projection and media elements with the lighting design to create a cohesive visual environment. This fusion of light and video resulted in a seamless, immersive aesthetic that elevated the overall performance.
