Ballet Nepantla is an award-winning, New York contemporary dance company that explores cultural in-between-ness through its unique fusion of Mexican ballet folklorico and contemporary dance. 🇲🇽
What New York City Ballet’s George Balanchine did with the folkloric dances of his native Russia, Ballet Nepantla is doing with the folkloric dances of Mexico.”
Keith Widyolar, Editor-in-Chief, New York Latin Culture Magazine
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Ballet Nepantla Performances
Ballet Nepantla “Nacimiento” is a Holiday Folkloric Ballet About The Birth of the Mexican People From Indigenous and Spanish Roots
QUEENS THEATRE, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇲🇽
Ballet Nepantla’s “Valentina” Tells Stories of Mexico’s Revolutionary Women
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇲🇽
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Ballet Nepantla News
Mexican Contemporary Ballet Folklórico
Ballet Nepantla presents the World Premiere of “Nacimiento” (birth), a contemporary ballet folklórico of the Méxica Solstice and Hispanic Christmas traditions that evolved into Mexico’s beloved holiday festivities; at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on December 22, 2023 at 8pm. From $22. queenstheatre.org 🇲🇽
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Nepantla
Nepantla” is the Aztec Nahuatl word for “in-between.”
It describes the Latin experience of being in-between two cultures, first Indigenous and Spanish, and now Mexican and American.
It also describes the Company’s style which is in-between Mexican folklorico and contemporary ballet.
Mexican folklorico is usually presented by community dance companies, but Ballet Nepantla takes it to another level. It is the first professional contemporary dance company in the United States to present Mexican folkloric traditions as contemporary ballet.
About The Company
What New York City Ballet’s George Balanchine did with the folkloric dances of his native Russia, Ballet Nepantla is doing with the folkloric dances of Mexico. The only similar company is sponsored by the government of Mexico in Mexico City. We are blessed to have this company in New York.
Founder and Artistic Director Andrea Guajardo (Momix) brings a woman’s perspective to the Company. Chicana feminists in the American Southwest call themselves “Nepantleras.” Like them, Guajardo is rewriting the archetype of the Mexican woman.
Her choreography recently won a Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences for artistic excellence in New York City. The company has also performed at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow dance festival.
Shows
- “Mística” is a Day of the Dead journey through our Indigenous, Afro, and Hispanic roots.
- “Nacimiento” (birth) is a contemporary ballet folklórico of the Méxica Solstice and Hispanic Christmas traditions that evolved into Mexico’s beloved holiday festivities. “Nacimiento” tells stories of La Malinche, the Indigenous Nahua interpreter who helped the Spaniard Cortés and birthed the first Latin; and Juan Diego the Mixtec whose Marian apparition became La Virgen de Guadalupe, patron saint of México and icon of our multicultural Latin identity.