CONTRA-TIEMPO: ¡azúcar!

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CONTRA-TIEMPO: ¡azúcar!

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Friday, December 18, 2026•7:30 PM

CONTRA-TIEMPO is a Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company known for socially conscious work that fuses Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theatrical storytelling. In ¡azúcar!, the company traces the complicated history of sugar, from its origins as a healing plant to its entanglement in the transatlantic slave trade and its enduring impact on Black and Latino communities.

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