free slots 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 sculptorfree slots, 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. But no matter what form they take, these objects function as “a kind of evidence that the dance existed,” Solorza said, and they keep the ideas expressed during a theater performance alive, even after the show has ended.

Audiences cannot take dancers home with them, but they can acquire these set pieces and costumes, or pictures that spark a dialogue on a topic he wants to explore. “That conversation happens when someone sees that object and asks what is the value of it, or where does it come from,” he said.

Such fare represents a conceptual leap at a marketplace like Art Basel, where many high-profile sales revolve around two-dimensional paintings by established artists. For Llano, there is some risk in producing a solo presentation by a dancer who is largely unknown outside of Mexico.

ImageVega Solorza displays a part of his new dance work, “Basoteve,” which will be performed at Art Basel Miami Beach.Credit...Brian Harkin for The New York Times

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