Rudy Perez has been a professional dancer for over fifty years and he continues to perform, choreograph, and teach. Last year, at 83, he performed a 10-minute solo, “download/overload,” at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theatre as part of the city-wide exhibition, “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.” His thoughts about dance and aging:
“As you get older,” points out Perez, “what do you have to hold onto? I’ve been thinking about the past and how there’s so much to draw from, and I can also use that as a reference point to keep going. But it’s also about the fact that Perez has been here, he’s still here, he’s still creating.”
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