Ballet Hispánico

Spring Season 2025

Thursday, November 7, 2024, at 7:30 pm Ballet Hispánico 2/12

Wed.7:30pm

Fatima Andere and Antonio Cangiano in Club Havana.

Images court esy of Ballet

Hispánico.

Photo by Ben McKeown, courtesy of the American Dance Festival.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

FOUNDER: Tina Ramirez

Artistic Director and CEO: Eduardo Vilaro

LEADERSHIP

Chief Managing Director: Patrick Muhlen

Ballet Mistress: Anitra Keegan

THE COMPANY

Fatima Andere, Amir J. Baldwin, Mia Bermudez, Antonio Cangiano, Amanda del Valle, Francesca Levita, Dylan Dias McIntyre, Andrea Mish, Adam Dario Morales, Amanda Ostuni, Daniel Palladino, Omar Rivéra, Isabel Robles, Yadamy Soria Fernandez, Yadamy Soria Fernandez, and Olivia Winston.

Production Director

Aholibama Castañeda González

Wardrobe Director

Andrea Mejuto

Lighting Supervisors

Dominick Riches

Stage Manager

Alexis Hinman

Warnings/Info

No photography, videography, or recordings of any kind is permitted. There will be two 15-minute intermissions. This performance includes haze/smoke effects. By entering Western Carolina University’s campus you understand that you may be photographed, filmed, or videotaped, and you authorize Western Carolina University the unqualified right to take pictures and or recordings of you and grant the perpetual right to take your likeness, image, photo without compensation, for broadcast or use in any medium.

Arabesque

Premiere: 1984, The Joyce Theatre

Choreography by Vicente Nebrada

Restaged by Linda Celeste Sims

Assisted by Johan Rivera

Music by Enrique Granados

Original Costume Design by Randy Barceló

Costume Reconstruction by Diana Ruettiger

Original Lighting Design by Donald Holder

Lighting Design by SK Watson

Performed by

Mia Bermudez, Antonio Cangiano, Francesca

Levita, Dylan Dias McIntyre, Andrea Mish, Adam Dario Morales, Amanda Ostuni, Daniel Palladino, Omar Rivéra, and Isabel Robles.

15 MIN INTERMISSION

Sombrerísimo

Premiere: 2013, New York City Center

Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

Music by Le Banda Ionica featuring Macaco el Mono Loco, Titi Robin and

Soundscape by various artists

Costume Design by Diana Ruettiger

Lighting Design by Joshua Preston

Performed by

Amir J. Baldwin, Mia Bermudez, Antonio Cangiano, Dylan Dias McIntyre, Adam Dario

Morales, and Omar Rivéra

15 MIN INTERMISSION

Club Havana

World Premiere: 2000, The Joyce Theater

Choreography by Pedro Ruiz

Music by Israel Lopez, Rubén Gonzales, A.K. Salim, Pérez Prado and Francisco Repilado

Costume Design by Emilio Sosa

Costume Construction by Ghabriello Negron

Lighting Design by Donald Holder

The original Club Havana production was made possible, in part, by gifts from Jody and John Arnhold, Dhuanne and Douglas Tansill and Caroline Newhouse; by grants from American Express Company and AT&T; and with commissioning funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Performed by

Amir J. Baldwin, Mia Bermudez, Antonio Cangiano, Amanda del Valle, Dylan Dias McIntyre, Andrea Mish, Adam Dario Morales, Omar Rivéra, Isabel Robles, and Olivia Winston

Opening

Mia Bermudez and Omar Rivéra

Caballo

Olivia Winston and Dylan Dias McIntyre, Isabel Robles and Adam Dario Morales, Andrea Mish and Amir J. Baldwin

Cha Cha Cha

Amanda del Valle

with Antonio Cangiano and Omar Rivéra

Romanza The Company

Rumba, Conga The Company

About Ballet Hispánico

Ballet Hispánico was founded on the principle that everyone deserves dance, quality dance training and innovative performances. In creating the company in 1970, Tina Ramirez shattered a glass ceiling—challenging iconic representations and exposing the joy and celebration to be found in Latinidad. Despite its humble origins, Ballet Hispánico immediately served as a catalyst for people in the Latine/x/Hispanic community, especially for Latino youth, to follow their dreams in the cultural world.

Today, as the largest Latino cultural organization in the United States and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, Ballet Hispánico’s three main programs, the Company, School of Dance and Community Arts Partnerships bring together communities to celebrate the ever growing and multifaceted Hispanic diasporas. Ballet Hispánico’s New York City headquarters provide the space and cultural heart for Latinx dance in the United States. It is a space that expands on Ramirez’s original vision by providing our community the ability to train through dedicated scholarship opportunities, exceptional dance training, inclusive cultural dialogues and exemplary performances. No matter their background or identity, Ballet Hispánico welcomes and serves all, breaking stereotypes and celebrating the beauty and diversity of Hispanic cultures through dance.

Eduardo Vilaro joined Ballet Hispánico as a Company dancer in 1985 and became the organization’s second Artistic Director in 2009 and CEO in 2015. Vilaro is building on Ramirez’s impact: expanding and deepening a legacy of showcasing the depth of our cultures, and exposing the intersectionality found in the Hispanic diasporas by focusing on nurturing Hispanic leaders. Through programs like the Instituto Coreográfico, the Latinx Leaders Summit and Diálogos, Ballet Hispánico has become a center for artistic leadership development. As an immigrant himself, Mr. Vilaro’s vision of inclusion and cultural revelation has elevated a community from the margins to its place ingrained at the center of the American cultural landscape.

Ballet Hispánico is an ambassador for our community worldwide. The Company has now performed for more than 2.5 million people in three continents and all fifty states. Our Company engages audiences with the work of Latino and Latina choreographers, opens a platform for new cultural dialogue and nurtures inspiring young dancers of all ages. Through its exemplary artistry, Ballet Hispánico champions and amplifies the Latin American experience in the field. As it looks to the future, Ballet Hispánico is committed to continue nurturing artists, teachers, students, arts leaders, families and communities through the power of dance.

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No photography, videography, or recording of any kind is permitted. Food and drinks are NOT permitted inside the Performance Hall. If personal items are displaced during the event, please visit our BAC Box Office or call during operational hours at 828-227-2479 for assistance.

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