Taller de Titeres Grandes (Big Puppets Workshop)

The Taller de Titeres Grandes (Big Puppets Workshop), hosted by La Tartana Theater from July 2 to 5, at TEATRO LA TARTANA S.L., C/ Camino de labores, 29 Nave 18 (calle interior), 28440 Guadarrama (Madrid). 

La Tartana is directed by Juan Muñoz. In 2017 La Tartana celebrated its 40th anniversary. The workshop was led by Ines Maroto. 

The participantes were Hitos Hurtado from Madrid, Ana Eva Guerra and Moises Gonzalez from Asturias, Jorge Luis Morejon from Cuba via Miami, Alberto Celdran and Ane Celdran from Alicante, and Dani Hernandez from Canarias.

Process:

Door to La Tartana

                              

                                                       Drawing the idea of the puppet

                                   Molding the face in clay

                         Molding the back of the head in clay

Creating a ring around the clay in preparation for the silicone mix

Making silicone mix

      Pouring silicone mix on the clay face and the back of the head

                                Wait for the silicone to dry
Prepare the scayola or yesso mix and pour it on the layer of silicone

  
      The clay is taken out of the scayola and silicone negatives

Washing the silicone negative

         
              Recycling the Clay

Making glue mix and putting piece of carton fallero inside 

Getting the paper face out of the silicone negative and putting the two halves together.

                            The face is sanded, then painted


                 

                                  Hair is added the head

                                           The workshop

      A handle is installed inside the head and the body is created

              Awarding of the certificates by Elena Munoz and Ines

                      Allow me to introduce you to Garcilazo, El Inca

Caribbean Fragments: A Conversation with Leandro Soto and Lillian Manzor

University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection cordially invites you to a conversation with

 

Leandro Soto

Visiting Artist, Caribbean Fragments
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Lillian Manzor, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami

 

Thursday, April 26, 2018 | 6:30 p.m.

Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion
Otto G. Richter Library, 2nd Floor
1300 Memorial Drive | Coral Gables, FL 33146

From left to right, Saskia St. Lot, Ana Miranda, Carol Kaminsky, Danielle Lowe,  \Raina Murnak, Leandro Soto, Jorge Luis Morejon and Amanda Lynn Crowley

Caribbean Fragments performance took place after the conversation with Soto. The performance recreated  archetypal energies manifested through dance, song and music. The pavilion was transformed into a vortex of embodied creative energy that resembled Soto’s array of ocean traces as an intricate maze of blue streamers moved by the dancers across the room in all directions, up and down,  in circles, suddenly and slowly, inviting all who were present to become the Caribbean sea.  

2nd Annual Music Moods and Moves / 2018

Music and Moods is an event that combines live music and dance. Hosted by the Dance Program and the Students' Music Club, the event combines both artistic manifestations in order to harvest collaboration between dancers and musicians. The pieces performed were: Charcoal Dreams, Sharp, Sympathy and Alone. Music Moods and Moves, sponsored by Frost School of Music, was performed at the Henry Filmore Band Hall, on April 8th, 2018.

What Do You See?

My Hands / Tus Brazos

What do you See? Linda Bair Dance Company 

 On April 10th, 2018, at 7pm, maps were handed out and instructions given for a self-directed journey through the John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California. The audience’s task was to find as many dance/movement installations as they could. They were free to sketch, video or photograph what captured their imagination. Jorge Luis Morejón performed a solo piece and three other pieces with Linda Bair, at What do you See? : The pieces performed were: The Healing Power of Expression, The Sofa, My Hands / Tus Brazos, and Alma.

Alma: Despite Time and Distance

Jorge Luis Morejon, (live), and Linda Bair (on video) dance to Alma (Soul), a piece created despite their distance from each other. Alma expresses their connection in dance even though the two dancers live in different cities, on opposite sides of the U.S. The piece establishes the possibility of having a conversation in dance with someone who is not physically present, but whose soul, symbolized by the video, is on stage. Alma was premiered as part of the Art of Dance Festival, directed and produced by Michelle Grant-Murray, at the McCarthy Auditorium, Miami Dade College, Kendall, on November 8th, 2017.

Dancer:Lorge Luis Morejon, Artistic Director and Dance Program Coordinator Michelle Grant-Murray.; Stage Manager Jennifer Puig. Miami Dade College Auditorium, Kendall Campus, Miami, November 4, 2017

This is the first time the piece been danced by Jorge Luis Morejon with Linda's working video in the background. This particular rehearsal took place on Monday, November 6, 2017 at Miami Dade College Auditorium, Miami, as part of Art of Dance Festival.

The Emperor and the Nightingale - A Tale From China / Gables

  Dancers: Barbie, Melanie, Lili, and Jorge Luis Morejon

• Momentum Dance Company Children's Series-New Children's Ballet - The Emperor and the Nightingale - A Tale From China

   

  Miami-Dade Public Library System - Coral Gables Branch

  3443 Segovia St

  Coral Gables, FL 33134

  Phone number(305) 442-8706
• Saturday, May 13, 12:00 am

The Emperor and the Nightingale - A Tale From China / Miami Beach

 

 Barbie, Melanie, Lili, and Jorge Luis Morejon

Momentum Dance Company Children's Series:

The Emperor and the Nightingale - A Tale From China in Miami Beach.

 

The Emperor and the Nightingale - A Tale From China - A benevolent, but sickly Chinese Emperor is healed by the magical song of a simple gray Nightingale. The Emperor and the members of the court are amazed, and want to keep the Nightingale in a golden cage. But when the Emperor of Japan sends a golden, jewel encrusted, mechanical bird, the Emperor and the members of the court forget about the Nightingale, and she flies away. Eventually, the glittering mechanical bird breaks, and the Emperor falls ill again, but the kind Nightingale comes back to to save the Emperor, who agrees that she can be free.

PERFORMERS:

 Kathy Brennan, Barbie, Melanie, Lili, and Jorge Luis Morejon

May 14, 2017

Sunday   3:00 PM

 

Miami Beach Regional Library

227 – 22nd Street,
Miami Beach, Florida 33139