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Thursday – Sunday: Nov. 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 8
pm; Nov. 5th at 3 pm at The Baruch Performing Arts
Center (BPAC), 55 Lexington Avenue at 25 th Street (between
Lexington and 3 rd Ave), NYC.
A new choreographic work that gives a pre-Hispanic
perspective on the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos (Day
of the Dead).
Tickets:
$25 general admission,
$20 student/senior,
$15 for Baruch ID holders and Cultural Passport participants.
To purchase tickets by phone: 646-312-4085 or online: www.ticketcentral.com |
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Dzul Dance fuses ritual, modern, ballet,
and the aerial arts – transforming
bodies into earthbound and airborne forces of nature. The
Company is an exciting and unique intermarriage of forms using
intense physicality, innovative partnering, and daring aerial
work to examine the ever-changing relationships between human
beings, nature and culture. Artistic Director Javier Dzul’s
versatile choreography illuminates, both spiritually and psychologically,
the vast array of drama and beauty inherent in universal human
existence.
Artistic Director/Choreographer: Javier Dzul
Lighting Designer: Stephen Petrilli
Performers: Ruth Kaltenbach Arena, Ji-Young
Bang, Robin Taylor Dzul, Nicole Lichau, Sarita Radley, Naomi
Relnick and Javier Dzul, PLUS SURPRISE GUEST ARTISTS!
JAVIER DZUL: Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer,
Aerialist
Javier Dzul grew up in Mexico performing the ritual dances
of his Mayan tribal community. His formal dance training began
in 1986 at the Universidad de Veracruz, at which time he also
became a member of Ballet Nacional de Mexico and Ballet Folklorico.
While in Mexico, Javier received a scholarship to study at
Ballet Nacional de Cuba, where he spent two years. In 1989
Javier won a scholarship to study at the Martha Graham School
of Contemporary Dance, where he became a principal dancer
with the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble. Javier has also worked
with the Pearl Lang Dance Theater, Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble,
American Indian Dance Theater and Battery Dance Company. In
1995 the Mexican Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
awarded him a scholarship to continue his studies in America,
and he began his study of classical ballet, first under the
late Vladimir Dokoudovsky and now with Patricia Dokoudovsky
at The New York Conservatory of Dance. Javier also studies
with former Cirque Du Soleil aerialist Chelsea Bacon and gymnast
Hector Salazar, and performs aerial arts as a guest artist
with the touring productions Acroback and Firedance.
In addition to performing, Javier has brought the artistry
and vocabulary of Dzul Dance to others through workshops and
ongoing classes. He began by teaching Graham master classes
and repertory at universities throughout the United States
while touring with the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble. Since
then Javier has continued to teach a variety of classes in
modern technique, aerial technique, and Dzul Dance repertory.
He has taught extensively at several international workshops
and dance institutes, including Colegio Nacional de Danza
and Universidad de Veracruz in Mexico and Emproart in Brazil.
Javier founded Dzul Dance in 1997. The ethnically diverse
eight member company has performed in New York and abroad
and Dzul’s numerous works have been presented at many
esteemed venues including The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse,
El Museo del Barrio, Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Mexico
Now Festival 2004) and Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian, garnering reviews along the way that laud
Dzul’s “strong presence” with “conscious
use of theatricalized ritual,” (Jennifer Dunning, The
New York Times), his “electrifying” creations
of “tumultuous psychological echoes of a socio-cultural
past and emotional maps of a possible human future” (Suzanne
K. Walther, Magazine.Art), as well as his ability
to turn his dancers of “remarkable elasticity” into “creatures
of the air as well as of the earth” (Jack Anderson, The
New York Times). Dzul has collaborated with several artists
on various projects, among them Colombian singer Lucia Pulido,
Guatemalan composer and musician Sergio Reyes, and internationally
acclaimed vocalist Sussan Deyhim. In addition to performing,
the Company is also actively involved in an ongoing community
outreach initiative with the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
CARE program bringing dance to Alzheimer and Dementia patients. |
