Malpaso Dance Company
Malpaso Dance Company
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Mixing modern Cuban music with contemporary classical and electronic sounds, Malpaso Dance Company has become one of Cuba’s most in-demand touring dance troupes. Since their American debut in 2014, their innovations in the modern dance landscape have led to collaborations with elite international composers and have earned them praise as “an unfailingly open and generous crew,” according to The New York Times.
During the 2020–21 season, Malpaso artists provided teaching videos for dance classes in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS). While visiting The Clarice this season, members of Malpaso Dance Company will visit TDPS dance technique classes and participate in a post-performance Q & A.
This event is part of Arts for All, a campuswide initiative which leverages the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time.
Concessions:
The Clarice lobby concession bar Encore will be open for food and beverage sales during this event.
Program
Daile Carrazana
Lullaby for Insomnia
Mats Ek
woman with water
Aszure Barton
Stillness in Bloom
–INTERMISSION–
Ohad Naharin
Tabula Rasa
Health + Safety
Patrons attending University of Maryland arts events are no longer required to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test. We continue to encourage audiences to wear a mask and stay current with vaccinations and boosters. Please see our Health & Safety information page for information about what to expect during your visit.
THE ARTISTS ON CAMPUS AND IN THE COMMUNITY
The Clarice is committed to creating extensive opportunities for our campus and community to engage with Visiting Artists throughout the season. During their time at UMD, members of the Malpaso Dance Company will have engaged in:
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Multiple class visits with UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) dance students.
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A post-show Q & A with students and audience members
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MALPASO DANCE COMPANY
In the seven short years since its establishment in 2012, Malpaso Dance Company has already become one of the most sought after Cuban dance companies with a growing international profile. Emphasizing a collaborative creative process, Malpaso is committed to working with top international choreographers while also nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography.
The company tours with 11 dancers and is led by its three original founders: resident choreographer and Artistic Director Osnel Delgado, Executive Director Fernando Sáez and Associate Artistic Director Daileidys Carrazana.
An Associate Company of Joyce Theater Productions, Malpaso—together with The Joyce—has commissioned original works from a number of prominent North American choreographers, including Ronald K. Brown (Why You Follow), Trey McIntyre (Under Fire), Aszure Barton (Indomitable Waltz), Emmy-award winning Sonya Tayeh (Face the Torrent) and most recently, Robin Mineko Williams who, in tandem with the company members, crafted Elemental. The work was developed as part of a collaborative program with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and had its world premiere in March 2019 at the Auditorium Theatre.
As part of its commitment to Cuban choreographers, Malpaso has also recently premiered works by company members Beatriz Garcia (Being (Ser)) and Abel Rojo (Carrying Floor), which went on to be nominated for a prestigious Benois de la Danse award.
The company also continues to tour works by Artistic Director Delgado, including Ocaso, 24 Hours and a Dog and Dreaming of Lions, which are often accompanied by Grammy award-winning, Cuban-American composer/pianist Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble.
The company recently added works by the legendary, late Merce Cunningham and the world- renowned Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin to their repertory. Cunningham’s Fielding Sixes was adapted for eight dancers and re-staged by Jamie Scott with new costume and lighting designs by David Quinn and Manuel Da Silva, respectively.
Naharin traveled to Cuba in spring of 2018 to work one on one with Malpaso dancers to re-stage his seldom performed, 30 year old masterwork, Tabula Rasa.
Liquidotopie by Argentinian choreographer Cecilia Bengolea - commissioned by International Summer Festival Kampnagel of Hamburg, Germany in summer 2018 - rounds out Malpaso’s active rep. Eagerly anticipated future works include an extended version of Mats Ek’s solo, woman with water, and a new full-evening work by Aszure Barton.
Program
Daile Carrazana
Lullaby for Insomnia
Mats Ek
woman with water
Aszure Barton
Stillness in Bloom
–INTERMISSION–
Ohad Naharin
Tabula Rasa