LAKE PLACID – The Lake Placid Center for the Arts welcomes La Quinta del Lobo to the LPCA stage on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. for their presentation of “Cuentos de la Manglera (“The Mangrove Tales”), which features indigenous Colombian dance and music rendered through a contemporary lens.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door, and are available by calling the box office at 518-523-2512 or online at www.lakeplacidarts.org.

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About “The Mangrove Tales”

In The Mangrove Tales (the name given to the collection of stories and popular literature transmitted through oral tradition, especially in the South Pacific), award-winning multidisciplinary artist collective La Quinta del Lobo investigates memory that refuses to disappear, re-examines myths, legends, dances and music, and creates a new production wherein video and light creates a luxurious, mutant and dynamic landscapes and scenario that allows us to visualize these stories, while generating a reflection on the present as well. The use of video and the interactivity of stage action and lighting create a lush landscape for the setting of these stories as we rethink our present.

The South Pacific is a region with complex dynamics – with flows and movements of de-territorialization, conflicts over land, water, timber and mineral wealth which become poverty for the people. It is a society that, at a given moment, turns its back on its people, destroying everything in its path towards an imaginary progress.

This tour is made possible through Southern Exposure: Performing Arts of Latin America, a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.