Victor Quijada‘s particularly intimate new work, Second Chances, is inspired by his experience in Los Angeles as a first-generation Mexican-American. Returning to the stage as a performer, Victor explores themes of identity and homeland. The show includes excerpts from Trenzado, which features a soundtrack by composer and DJ Jasper Gahunia, sampling traditional Mexican norteño music (corridos and ranchera).

In addition to Trenzado, this repertory program also includes Commissions Suite, a reconstruction of two works originally choreographed by Quijada for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Physikal Linguistiks) and Scottish Dance Theater (Second Coming). A soundtrack by Jasper Gahunia provides the landscape as seven performers navigate the chaos.

Second Chances invites Quijada and the audience to delve deep inside themselves, reflecting on origin, belonging and displacement, between universal questions and intimate, personal thoughts.

Trenzado is produced by RUBBERBAND and co-commissionned by Jacob’s Pillow. Trenzado benefitted from the financial support of the New England Foundation for the Arts through its National Dance Project Production Grant, Travel Fund and Community Engagement Fund and of the Department of Canadian Heritage / Government of Canada through its Official Languages Support Programs Branch.

RUBBERBAND benefitted from creation residencies offered by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts | University of Illinois in Champagne/Urbana, New York Baryshnikov Arts Center with the RUBBERBAND Intensive Development Lab (IDL) supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Grant and Danse à la Carte.