Alfonso Cervera
SF FACTS/SUMMER AUG. 2023
RP : Retinitis pigmentosa, is a rare, inherited degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment, often beginning in early childhood. Cervera's work places his family at the forefront as he archives and revisits shared moments with Maria Casanova and Denise Cervera's lived experiences. Through movement-based explorations, Cervera attempts to acknowledge past events and bring awareness to his family's disability.
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
PRESS
Another highlight was Alfonso Cervera and Irvin Gonzalez’s incredibly athletic duet. They balanced genuine"
intimacy with cheeky humor and abstracted political commentary. Their duet, entitled “Q-lucha” was a queer reframing of luchador machismo. With their slow, tender partnering interspersed with aggressive wrestling, the luchador masks that obscured their faces, and the sounds of an “English Basic Phrases” instructional tape, Cervera and Gonzalez both counteracted and ironically exaggerated stereotypes of Mexican masculinity.” The Daily Californian, San Francisco- November 17, 2017