About the Works

Lullaby for Insomnia 2020 (10 minutes)

Choreography: Daileidys Carrazana

Music: Jordi Sabates

Lighting Design: Guido Gali

Costume Design: Daileidys Carrazana

Dancer: Osnel Delgado

Choreographer’s Note: “The creation process helped to identify myself with the personality of Bola de Nieve, and at the same time, I benefited from his musical legacy. That was the starting point to pay tribute to that iconic personality of our culture. Based on his music, I felt that I could connect with certain essences of the Cuban culture, and express them through my medium, movement.” — Daileidys Carrazana

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Choreography: Mats Ek

Music: Wet Woman by Fläskkvartetten

Lighting Design: Ellen Ruge

Dancers: Dunia Acosta and Osnel Delgado

“His woman with water has all the hallmarks of his style, bold, simple and honing in on the essence of the human being. A woman, a man, a table and a glass of water. On the surface that’s what you get, but with Ek, like an iceberg, there is so much more under the surface.” — Note from dance writer Maggie

Foyer

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Indomitable Waltz 2016 (27 minutes)

Choreography: Aszure Barton

Music: The Young Conscript and the Moon by Balanescu Quartet; Waltz by Balanescu Quartet; Circling by Nils Frahm; Love Scene by Balanescu Quartet; String Quartet by Balanescu Quartet

Costume Design: Fritz Masten

Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce

Dancers: Daileidys Carrazana, Dunia Acosta, Daniela Miralles, Danny Rodríguez, Esteban Aguilar, Osvaldo Cardero, Esven González, Carlos Valladares

“Indomitable Waltz is an exploration, an approach to the soul, under extreme or intense emotional circumstances.” — Note from Malpaso Executive Director Fernando Sáez

Indomitable Waltz was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the

Executive Director’s Fund at The Joyce Theater Foundation, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was cocommissioned by DANCECleveland and the Cleveland Foundation.

A technical residency was generously provided by Duncan Theater at Palm Beach State College for the US premiere of Indomitable Waltz by Aszure Barton.

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Tabula Rasa 1986 (30 minutes)

World Premiere: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, February 6, 1986 Malpaso Premiere: May 4, 2018, Havana, Cuba

Choreography: Ohad Naharin

Music: Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt

Costume Design: Eri Nakamura

Lighting Design: Ohad Naharin

Dancers: Daileidys Carrazana, Dunia Acosta, Daniela Miralles, Danny Rodríguez, Greta Yero, Esteban Aguilar, Osvaldo Cardero, Esven González, Carlos Valladares, Diego Tápanes

Choreographer’s Note: “Tabula Rasa has a very simple structure. The movement is very athletic. It has much less of the research that connects to more recent works. It’s a lot about how you dance, not what you dance, that moves me when I watch anybody’s choreography. I can appreciate the work of choreography, I can appreciate structure, organization, ideas, metaphors, decoration, lights … I can appreciate, but what can move me is only the dancing.” —

Ohad Naharin

This work was made possible by The Executive Director’s Fund of the Joyce Theater Foundation, Jerome L. Greene Foundation in honour of Karen Brooks Hopkins. And also, thanks to Susan Dickler and Sig Van Raan.