The Music Center Offstage Presents Malpaso Dance Company

The Music Center Offstage Presents: Malpaso Dance Company

May 15, 2020

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THE MUSI C CENTER OFFSTAGE TO PREMIERE TWO NEW PROGRAMS THIS WEEKEND FEA TURING MALPASO DANCE COMPANY Posted by Jeff Slayton May 12, 2020

In mid-April The MusicCenter launched The Music center Offstage. a Virtual arts experience that includes interviews with and performances by renown artists that mdude some of the world's best dance companies. This weekend the focus in oo the Ma lpaso Dance company fromCub<l.

On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Special Student Event Introduces Viewers tod Virtual Performance of 24 Hours and a DogWith Introductions and Q&A Featuring Malpaso·s Founders andCompany Dancers, and on Sunday, May 17, 2020 Tne Mus/C CenterO/fttage continues with INSIDE WOK'. Malpaso DanceCompany H ighlights Cultural and Artistic Exchange Between Cuba and America. Featuring Exclusive lntelViewsWith Malpaso's Founders Osnel De lgado, Fernando Saez and Da1leidys Carrazana. plus Choreographers Ronald K . Brown and sonya Tayeh. Followed by Streamed Pertormance of Tayeh's Face the Torrent

The Malpa so Dance Company was founded just six years ago and with the aid of Joyce Theater Procluctioos. it has already drawn the attention of world renown choreographers and become one of the most sought-afterCuban dance companies in the U.S. and abroad. In 2019. the company performed at The Soraya and the Irvine Barclay TheatreWith the 1980 work Fielding sixes choreographed by MerceCunningham Aszure Bartoo·s Indomitable Waltz, Sonya Tayeh's Face the TOfrent and ocasa by Artist Director/Choreographer Osnel Delgado.

In my March 22, 2019 review of Malpaso D.lnce Company I wrote. ·it is a company with a cast of 11 brilliant dancer arti sts who brought the Irvine Barclay Theatre audience to the feetWith their stage presence. technical prowess. acting ab 1t1es, and their grace The Music Center's May 7, 2020 press release best describes the events In fine with The Music Center's commitment to arn learning/or all ages. FridUys digital srudent performance will be.gin a t 11:00 a.m.with an introduction tJy Malposo·s three fo unders. followed tJy a 20-mmute suite performance tJy the company of 24 Hours and a Dog. Geared for middle and high school srudents runing infrom Los Angeles. Compton, El Rancho and Lynwood school districts among others, the company will discuss how visual storytelling self-expression, Cuban culture, and diverse perspear.tes can be communicated through darKe movemenc and music. A Q&A will follow the performonce, led by saez with his fellow company founders and dancers. FIiied with1ozzy and youthful energy. 24 Hours. and a Dog features choreography by Delgado far 10 dancers with music

by GAAMMY:t Award winner Muro O'Farri/1. The Malpaso Dance Company special student event is mode possible with support from the Glorya Kaufman Foundation, Center Dance Arts. Amto Mann Kohl and Allen Kohl and U.S. Bank.

Sunday's event INS/Of lOOK: Ma/paso Dance Company be.ginning at 2:00 p.m., w!ll/eature a behind-the.scenes exploration a/the artistic and cultural co nneaion between Cuban and American artists, articulated tJy company founders osnel Delgado, artistic direaor; Fernando Silez, executive d1reaor: and Da1/eid-js Carr01ono: and interspersed with video cllps from the ensemble's performances. The program continues with an inte,vieww,th award-winning American choreographers Ronald IC Brown and sonya Tayeh, who will diS(uss their artistic collaborations with Malposo Dance Company, concludmgwith an exclusNe streamed performance of T(ljl!h's Fau the Torrent· chis piece was commissioned by The Music Center, which also hosted its world premiere in 2017 . Choreographed far eight dancers. Face the Torrent .showcases Malposo's range of dance skills, theatnca//ty, ond raw emotions. In the piece, Tayeh. an EmmytAward nominee for her choreographyfor 5a You Think You can Dan<:e, confront5 the underlying angst inherent in /a<:ing adversity and tragedy and interprets these emotions through a fusion of classic and contemporary dance. The streamed performance of Face the Torrent will also be available on demand on musiccenter.org/or a limited time following this online event. INS/Of LOOK is mode pornble with support from the Glorya Kaufman Foundation and Center Dance Arts.

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So, there is no need to deny oneself of dance performances this weekend. The Music Center Offstage offers u s the change to see and experience excellent choreography, amazing dancers and interviews with the artists involved with the Malpaso Dance Company Wilm The Music Center Offstage: musiccenter.org

Friday, May 15.2020.11 :oo a.m. {Digital Student Performance) Sunday. May 17.2020. 2:00 p.m. (INSIDE LOOK) written and compiled eyJeffSlaytonfar lAOC. May 12. 2020.

Featured image: Malpaso Dance Company m Face the Torrent - Choreography by Sonya Tayeh - Photo by Rose Eichenbau

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