Review: Las Cuatro Estaciones: A Story of Human Trees by Sharon Marroquin

by David Glen Robinson
Published on March 30, 2017

Memories of the performance play like flash images: the company in stillness on the stage floor, curled and gnarled, grains of potential and nothing more; Lisa del Rosario on a tree stump, becoming the tree; a slap fight; the mundane; and death.

  Sharon Marroquin has made a profound artistic statement in her work as part of her residency at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center (MACC) in Austin. Her field is multimedia dance, and her Las Cuatro Estaciones: A Story of Human Trees is effectively her recital in culmination of her residency. As such she sets a high bar for the other seven latino artists in the Latino Art Residency Project at the MACC. Also, her soundtrack is …

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