Dreaming of You: The Unauthorized Education of Selena and the Queens of San Antonio (MAP 2017)

Dreaming of You: The Unauthorized Education of Selena and the Queens of San Antonio

photo by Joan Osato

ABOUT THE GRANT

  • $33,450 to Intersection for the Arts to support Dreaming of You: The Unauthorized Education of Selena and the Queens of San Antonio (MAP 2017)
  • $7,469 to general operating support for Richard Montoya, Sean San José and Joan Osato

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Dreaming of You: The Unauthorized Education of Selena and the Queens of San Antonio is a new performance piece by Richard Montoya, Sean San José and Joan Osato, inspired by the Tejana pop superstar Selena’s relationship and collaboration with a Transgender Seamstress. With the unlikely support of the Tejas Drag Community, Dreaming of You tells the story of a young star’s conscious choice to push against established norms of acceptable styles, sexuality and gender in the final triumphant months of her short and meteoric career/life.


LEAD ARTISTS

Richard Montoya
Sean San José
Joan Osato