Keeping a Dance Alive, Even After the Show Ends
Diego Vega Solorza does not want people to think of him as a visual artist. He is certainly not a sculptor, he insists, nor a photographer or videographer — even though he will exhibit that kind of work in a showcase for emerging talent at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, the visual arts mega-fair running Friday through Sunday.
He is a choreographer and dancer — and only that — and everything he creates is in service to dance making, said Vega Solorza, who lives in Mexico City and is a star in his native country.
Those objects, which will be displayed by Llano gallery in the fair’s Positions section, were a “material response” to the works he devises for the human body, he said.
They may include props from a performance piece he has dreamed up, like a horse saddle (custom-made for two riders facing one another), or video of a new dance, or still images that capture dancers in action.
