Herrera Dance Project dancers will perform “Echoes of Justice: Unanswered for 77” at the Latino Cultural Center. Photography by Judianne Frampton.
The Latino Cultural Center on Live Oak Street will host a dance production centering around the deadliest Texas public school shooting.
Featuring the Herrera Dance Project, “Echoes of Justice: Unanswered for 77” will use dance to explore the events of the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, in which 19 children and two adults were killed. The name refers to the number of minutes it took for law enforcement to confront the shooter.
These free performances will take place at 7:15 p.m. July 30 and Aug. 2.
Herrera Dance Project is run by two Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts alumni — Madison Frampton-Herrera and Favian Herrera Jr.
“Our organization went on the journey of exploring topics of social injustice as a way to cultivate conversations on these hard pressed subjects that many of us avoid having,” Favian said. “In the times we live today it’s not a matter of if things happen, it’s a matter of when it happens.”
Herrera Dance Project also used dance in a production last year about Santos Rodríguez, the 12-year-old boy murdered by Dallas police officer Darrell Cain in 1973.
“We were touched that people appreciated our artistry; it served as an inspiration for us to continue utilizing our artistry as a call to action,” Favian said. “Dance is unique as emotion is the motivating vessel of our movement, and we translate through raw energy of the human spirit. Dance touches the inner depths of our souls and we believe it allows us to be the voice of those whose voices were ripped away from them due to injustice.”
“Echoes of Justice: Unanswered for 77” will address grief and loss, but it is also supposed to be a call to action by creating a space to reflect and talk about systemic violence and advocate for a world without it, according to a press release.
The Latino Cultural Center is located at 2600 Live Oak St.
