By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A total of 93 Mexican dancers of different genres came together over the internet this week to create a moving modern ballet interpretation of José Pablo Moncayo’s “Huapango,” a classic Mexican symphony. The dance, titled “Un Solo Corazón en Movimiento” (“A Single Heart in Movement”) was part of an initiative by the National Institute
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s most important festival of Japanese butoh dance theater will be held in Mexico City starting on Tuesday, April 30. The two-week festival, titled “Cuerpos en Revuelta” (”Bodies in Revolt”), is being sponsored by the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) and will be spread out across six different venues throughout the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The South Korean Embassy in Mexico and the Korean Cultural Center hosted a spectacular, one-night-only performance by the renowned National Gugak Center of traditional music and dance at Mexico City’s Teatro Metropólitan on Saturday, April 6, to mark the 100th anniversary of that country’s March First Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule and the subsequent establishment of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s premiere Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández and the Carlos Chávez School Orchestra will joint forces for a special one-night-only gala performance to mark the nation’s independence holiday in the main auditorium of the Palacio de Bellas Artes on Sunday, Sept. 16, In addition to the music for the folklore ballet, the Carlos Chávez
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the third straight year, the International Modern Dance Festival opened in Mexico City on Thursday, Aug. 2. The festival,, which will run through Aug. 12, includes the participation of 54 dance companies from a total of 26 counties. The performances are being presented in various locations throughout the city, including the Faros de Oriente, Tláhuac,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The prestigious Québécoise contemporary dance troupe La Compagnie Marie Chouinard will return to Mexico this weekend for a two-night performance of “El Bosco: El Jardín de las Delicias” (“Bosch: The Garden of Delights”) at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris on Friday, May 11, at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.m. The
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The 34th edition of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico Festival (FCH) got underway over the weekend, with a performance on Friday, March 2, of Gioachino Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” by the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata at the Templo de Santo Domingo and a simultaneous display of the history of dance and music from traditional folklore sounds to
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The one-time-only performance in Mexico of the hour-long modern ballet by the nine-member SDT troupe was both spellbinding and intense
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The dance troupe, which was founded in 2005 by choreographer and director Ján Ďurovčík and was formerly known as the Bratislava Dance Theater, is stopping off in Mexico after a two-month whirlwind global tour to present this single performance of the modern ballet interpretation of the renowned 19th century opera based on the Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 romantic novella
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