Jonathan Pacheco
Jonathan Pacheco
Temple for The Fallen
The air is thick and warm and sweet-smelling with sweat. The walls pulse with the sounds of patterned vibrations, and the ground shakes. Bodies press against bodies. Everyone swinging to the same beat. Communicating without words. Talking in rhythms and beats and movements and breathless expressions of strength and unity. Everyone has a voice in this house! As a Puerto Rican American designer, the music of bomba is in my DNA. I perform it, I live it. Unique to Puerto Rico, bomba has its roots in Western Africa. The electronic sound that is house music is a product of the 1980s and 90s. Like bomba, it provides the space and release for a marginalized community to express itself musically, to be heard, through dance. The interconnection between these two genres, bomba and house music, is the foundation of “Temple for The Fallen,” a kaleidoscopic, vertiginous, mesmerizing work of motion design celebrating intra-community oneness.
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