En Garde Arts in association with Lehman Stages presents

Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)
Thursday March 12 at 7PM
The Studio Theatre
More info and tickets go to engardearts.org

“The fandango is community.
The fandango, for centuries, has been the container for everything the community is living through.
It’s integrated people’s feelings, hopes, and fears.
The fandango migrated, and I migrated with the fandango.
El fandango emigró, y yo emigré con el fandango.” – Sinuhé Padilla

About the Show

Inspired by interviews with undocumented immigrants from Latin America living in New York, the piece will take the form of a fandango, a community celebration where stories are brought to life through live performance, music, and dance.

On the eve of city-wide ICE raids, a group of immigrants gather in an undisclosed community center in NYC for a fandango. As fear encroaches — fear for family left behind in their home countries, fear for loved ones in the middle of their dangerous journey to New York, fear of leaving the sanctuary of the community center simply just get a bag of ice — a sense of camaraderie builds between the participants. Strangers become friends, friends become family, and the fandango plays on.