Miami Medley Dance Week / July 30th to August 4th

Miami Medley Dance Week is an initiative that promotes cross pollination within the dance community; help new dancers in town gain some footing and get a sense of who is doing what in the community.

 

Workshops taken by Jorge L. Morejon:

 

Nikki Rollason / Faldenkrais

Randy Goblen / Performance Workshop

Rosie Herrera / Brutal Elegance

Hannah Baumgarten / Contemporary Technique

                       

Karen Peterson / Choreographing Difference 

                                 Participants: Gabriel, Britany, Alegra, Laura, Jenna, Daniel, Marisol, Emily, 
                                  Diana Gamboa, Ceci, Destiny, Ishmael, Keisha, Clara, Jorge, Lakeria, Nataly, Melissa

 Recipe to make oneself / Exercise

Danza Contacto en Espacio en Blanco

Contact Improvisation Dance Workshop with  Marta Wrzesinska in Espacio en Blanco, C/ Mira el sol, 5-7 local calle 28005 (Madrid) Madrid, from July 9th to 12th, 2018. 

Participants: Hugo, Ivan, David, Jorge, Lea, Maria, Shus, Irma, Isa, Eliza, Tatiana, Martha (leader)

Contact improvisation is a form of dance based on a dialogue between two or more people in movement, who share a point of contact and improvise using some principles from physics such as:  gravity, weight, centrifugal force, momentum and inertia. 

                                             
                    Jorge Luis Morejon and Tatiana in front of Espacio en Blanco, Calle Mira el sol

                                                         
              Jorge Luis Morejon and David (In the background Eliza & Maria, left, Chus & Lea, right)

                                          (From left to right) Jorge Luis Morejon, David, Lea, Chus, Hugo and Irma

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.