Out of her fascinations and frustrations, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso embodies and turns around the archetypes of the Character Dancer and the Mariachi — characterized for being hyperdramatic, hypervirtuous and hypergendered. Masterpiece explores both their excesses in the tumult of nostalgic and Latin American associations, hijacking the dance from its legitimacy, legacy and traditions. In collaboration with composer Peter Rubel and an abundance of loudspeakers — repurposed as sound sculptures, affect carriers and acoustic partners — Masterpiece deals with the poetics of building, unbuilding, repeating, interrupting and abandoning dances and songs, which attempt to exist within consonance and dissonance. — Luisa Fernanda Alfonso