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Available Space Length: 60 min. Description:A collaboration with The Nerve Tank, two composers, and a visual artist to transform a narrow swath of City Hall Park into a carnival in Available Space. Inspired by the chess tables in City Hall Park, acrobats, jugglers, tight rope walkers, and a bearded lady evoke the grit and cheap sparkle of a Mexican circus. Together these characters perform a series of acts illustrating the political subtext in a game of chess. Led by a marching band, the audience travels with the performers from the west side of City Hall Park to the Brooklyn Bridge. Musicians perform alternative and punk rock. Exploring space and social interaction, Available Space uncovers the fantasies and secrets of our society. Premiere: September 8th, 2008 at City Hall Park. Presented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Celebrate Mexico Now Festival.
Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola in close collaboration with Cori Kresge
The Seams (am I that I am) Length: 40 min. Description: Conceived within the structural limits of a palindrome. Premiere: March 14th, 2008 at Joyce SoHo. NYC Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola
Tale Length: 20 min Description: Inspired by the fantastic reality of Mexican Film Director Guillermo del Toro. Premiere: January 8, 2008 in Teatro Jose Peon Contreras. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola
Retratos Length: 28 min Description: Premiere: January 8, 2007. Teatro Peon Contreras. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. NYC premiere- Joyce SoHo, March 14, 2008. Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola
Aktun Spukil Length: 65 min with Installation, 45min without Description: This evening length piece, made in collaboration with visual artists Teresa Loret de Mola and Marielena Jorge, offers an arresting performance full of instinctive movement and haunting images that transform the space to illustrate the ambiguities of exile and freedom that the Mayas face. Premiere: June 15, 2006. La Galeria. Merida, Yucatan. Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola
( ) Length: 5min Description: A light hearted duet inspired by the relationship that animals have to one another. This piece is full of casual gesture that begins to show the complexity between dominance and submissiveness whilst maintaining a sense of playfulness, much like human interaction. Premiere: Cool NY Festival 2006 , April 27th, 2006 Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola
Que poca! Length: 12 min. Description: Que poca! Takes a satirical look at immigration and the bureaucracy that immigrants face when trying to enter and live in the United States. Using the scores to well-known operas and then integrating the narratives of the dancers who have been personally affected by this subject, Que Poca! humorously protests the stigmatism of being an immigrant. NYC Premiere: July 30th, 2005. Fielday at Pier 63
Analecta (n: a collection of stories) Length: 25 min Description: With turbulent and fluid movement, memories unfold underwater and surface, waiting to be given life. Using water as a common theme, Analecta is an experience as well as a journey that traces the childhood memories of its performers. Using these recollections, Loret de Mola paints a landscape that dives into the complexity of the human psyche, to reach beyond the depth of life and death. Premiere: April 15th, 2005. Purchase College SUNY Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola Note: The piece takes place in a water tank and a one-inch pool of water.
Mexican Flavors in American Cuisine (3 excerpts) J. Lee Description: Based on the stereotype that opposites attract, Mexican Flavors in American Cuisine is an exhilarating stew of magnetic energy. In two solos and a duet, a man and women find themselves face to face in an accidental love affair. Their passion frequently puts them at odds with each other. Can they learn to love each other as individuals? Premiere: October 29th, 2004 Purchase College, SUNY Note: Excerpts from the piece can be performed separately or as a whole.
CAOS! (Chaos) Commissioned by: Compañia de Danza Contemporanea del Estado de Yucatan. Description: Beginning with the idea of the seven deadly sins, Loret de Mola investigates the chaotic effect that right and wrong can have on ones identity. As our self-image is formed, a question is asked, “Who is the person we allow others to see¬¬?” Caos creates an emotionally charged and at times introspective journey of ones personal struggle and self-acceptance. Premiere: October 29th, 2004 Purchase College SUNY Notes: Several props such as a pole, stool, large pan, rope, pillow, George W. Bush mask, American Flag, fake money, are used.
“Canonicemos a las Putas” Length: 12 min. Description: Based on the prose ¨Canonicemos a las putas¨ by Jaime Sabines, this trio explores the boundaries of beauty, innocence and envy. Using confrontational and sometimes explicit movement. The Whores reevaluates the impact that prostitutes have on society. Excerpt from the poem Premiere: July 12th 2004. Teatro Principal, Burgos, Spain
The Destruction of Chi Cheen´Itza Length: 15 min Description: The legend says that on a crisp morning that marked the beginning of a Mayan calendar, a solemn celebration took place in honor of the god K´uk´ulkan (feathered snake). People from all the Mayan cities hurried to the ceremony including the arrogant Chak-xib Chaak and his people from Chi Cheen´Itza. Hunak-Eel, head of the Mayan Union and lord of Mayapan, led the ceremony that concluded with the introduction of his bride to be, Sak-Nicte. Her overwhelming beauty drove Chak-xib Chaak to madness and the consequences gave title to this piece. Premiere: May 7th, 2004. Purchase College, SUNY Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola
Desnuda la idea nace (Nude the idea is born) Length: 12 min Description: Desnuda la idea nace begins with the subconscious, a pure space where Idea is born. As her creation begins we watch as consciousness and judgment manipulate her until her simplicity is lost, a right of passage for Idea to become realized. Premiere: November 13th, 2003. Purchase College, SUNY Choreography: Ofelia Loret de Mola Notes: The piece is done on a stage covered by 2-3 inches of natural fall leaves. This piece contains full nudity. |
