Antonio Ramos & The Gangbangers in collaboration with Saúl Ulerio

A Bessie award-winning choreographer, Antonio is Artistic Director of Antonio Ramos and the Gangbangers. A queer, HIV+, Puerto Rican artist who was born on the island, his work reflects themes of sexuality, the body, and histories of colonization. Ramos has presented works at the High Line, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Judson Church, Dixon Place, JACK, Abrons Art Center, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and Theatre La Chapelle in the Montreal Fringe Festival. He has held artist residencies at Rosin Fund of the Scherman Foundation, Movement Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Djerassi Foundation, Bogliasco Fellowship, Gibney Dance in Process, El Museo del Bario, Cornell University and Laboratorio: Condensación in Mexico. Ramos has been reviewed in the New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, and Stage Buddy. Scholars have written about his work for danceviewtimes, OFFOFFOFF, and infinitebody.

Turista
This is an excerpt of El Pueblo de los Olvidados, an experimental piece set in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the 2018 catastrophe that devastated Puerto Rico and exposed the fragile reality behind the island’s postcard image. Through satire, irony, and moments of raw humanity, the piece confronts the contradiction between the paradise sold to tourists and the daily struggles of the people who call the island home.

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