Gems, empowering women through dance is the 5th production of Adriana Echeverri, but the second one is the
In each Gems production, we have a main star/character. Last year we had Petruska as a mythical ballerina that came to deliver 5 different gems. This year we have Vixen, who will narrate a story that takes place in the 1920’s. There will be 4 gems, each describing an emotion/feeling which will be expressed through the choreographers invited.
This production unlike any other by Echeverri will have special acting and narration by Vixen (
In addition to that our setting and ambiance promises to take you to that era of which flapplers, short hair, Cloche Hats, and blood lipsticks were all that and then some jazz!
Echeverri’s main objective is to educate the audience on how the art of Bellydance empowers women of all walks of life. This ancient art form has traveled continents and evoked passion in the hearts of all women, never discriminating their physical apprearence or background.
An era when women prevailed despite the obstacles:
- 1921 Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
- 1923 Edna St. Vincent Millay becomes the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
- 1923 The Equal Rights Amendment, drafted by Alice Paul, is introduced in the United States Congress
- 1924 Dorothy Day moves to
- 1925 Florence Sabin becomes the first female member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1925 Mary Breckinridge organizes the Frontier Nursing Service to provide health care to remote areas of
- 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the thirteenth governor of
- 1926 Bertha K. Landes is elected mayor of
- 1927 Dorothy Arzner directs her first film, Fashions for Women.
- 1928 Lydia Mendoza makes first recording as a member of Cuarteto Carta Blanca.
“…he had it coming”
