Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is one of New York City’s leading Mexican folkloric dance companies. A “calpulli” is a traditional Aztec community. Calpulli is a community that gets students dancing like professionals with world-class stagecraft and storytelling. It is as good as anything on Broadway. Really!
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company in New York City
New Rochelle Public Library
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company dances a special educational performance of excerpts from “Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo;” at the New Rochelle Public Library, in New Rochelle, New York; on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 6:30pm. FREE with rsvp. newrochelle.librarycalendar.com 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Brooklyn Public Library Main Branch
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company celebrates Cinco de Mayo with Calpulli Community Students presenting the traditional music and dances of Mexico; at the Brooklyn Public Library Main Branch in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn; on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 1pm. FREE. 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Performs “Navidad: A Mexican-American Christmas” at the Count Basie Center
COUNT BASIE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Red Bank, New Jersey 🇲🇽
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company’s “Día de Los Muertos” Brings the Mexican Family Celebration to Life
FLATIRON PUBLIC PLAZA, Flatiron District, Manhattan 🇲🇽
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Monarcas” Celebrates the Contributions and Sacrifices Mexican Immigrants Make for the USA
QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇲🇽
New York Venues
These are some of the theaters where Calpulli performs.
- Count Basie Theatre in Redbank, New Jersey.
- Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx.
- Javits Center at Hudson Yards, Manhattan.
- Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens.
- The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan.
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Calpulli has a touring company; dance, music, and costume design programs; and teaching artists who do community outreach across Metro New York. The company was founded in New York City in 2003.
- Executive Director and Co-Founder Juan Castaño has built an impressive community arts organization.
- Artistic Director Grisel Pren Monje gets community dancers to perform like professionals by mixing classical ballet and Mexican folk dance technique. A classical ballerina told us that Calpulli dancers perform like professional ballet dancers. Grisel is the heart of the company.
- Director of Arts-in-Education and Co-Founder Alberto Lopez Herrera has been named one of Time Magazine’s great “American Voices.” He is a world-class storyteller.
- Musical Director George Saenz is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, which produces an endless stream of successful jazz and Latin music stars.
Repertoire
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company has an extensive repertoire of many forms of Mexican and Mexican American culture.
- “Cinco de Mayo Story” tells the story of why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo through Indigenous and folkloric dance.
- “Día de los Muertos” brings Mexico’s beloved Day of the Dead traditions to life.
- “Monarcas” celebrates the contributions Mexican immigrants make to the culture and prosperity of the United States.
- “Navidad: A Mexican American Christmas” is a Mexican nutcracker told through the eyes of an immigrant child who wonders whether she should celebrate Christmas through her family’s Mexican heritage, or in the American traditions of the United States.
There is more repertoire at calpullidance.org
Tickets and Information
Tickets are sold through presenting theaters.
Social Media
Facebook @calpullimexicandance
Instagram @calpullimexicandance
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