Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is a New York Mexican folkloric dance organization.
A “calpulli” is a traditional Aztec community.
It is a complete dance company with a touring company and teaching artists in dance, music, and costume design. It teaches across Metro New York.
It is a community dance company, yet Calpulli productions are Broadway-quality in every dimension. How they achieve this level of excellence with community artists and a few professionals, is some kind of New York miracle.
Thank you Calpulli Mexican Dance Company for sponsoring New York Latin Culture Magazine!
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Shows
“Navidad: A Mexican-American Christmas” by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is at the Queens Theatre
Saturday-Sunday, December 10-11, 2022
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
QUEENS THEATRE
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
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Calpulli Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Brings the Mexican Family Celebration of Life to the Hostos Center Stage
Saturday-Sunday, October 29-30, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Tells the Story of Cinco de Mayo at Count Basie Center
Thursday, May 5, 2022
COUNT BASIE CENTER
Red Bank, New Jersey
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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Twitter @calpullidance
Facebook @calpullimexicandance
Instagram @calpullimexicandance
Community Leaders
Artistic Director and Co-Founder Alberto Lopez Herrera has been named one of Time Magazine’s great “American Voices.” He really is a world-class storyteller.
Executive Director and Co-Founder Juan Castano has built an impressive community arts organization.
Associate Artistic Director Grisel Pren gets community dancers to perform like professionals by mixing classical ballet and Mexican folk dance technique. A classical ballerina told us that Calpulli performers dance like professional ballet dancers.
Musical Director George Saenz is a graduate of Berklee College of Music which produces an endless stream of Jazz and Latin music stars.
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company News
December 2022
“Navidad: A Mexican-American Christmas,” by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, connects Indigenous Mexican, Hispanic, and American holiday traditions in a mariachi nutcracker folkloric ballet at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park: Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 2pm & 7pm; Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 3pm; with a special educational performance on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 10:30am. From $25 or 4 for $90 with code 4FOR90. queenstheatre.org 🇲🇽
October 2022
Calpulli “Día de los Muertos,” dance theatre about the Day of the Dead, the Mexican family celebration of life, is at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Saturday-Sunday, October 29-30, 2022 (Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm). $25. Hurry, we expect a sell-out! hostos.cuny.edu 🇲🇽
July 2021
The Queens Theatre presents an evening of Mexican music and dance outdoors in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens on Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 6pm. (Free tickets) 🇲🇽
The Brooklyn Public Library streams a Facebook live performance on Wednesday, July 9, 2021 at 2pm ET. 🇲🇽 FREE
About Calpulli
In pre-contact Aztec culture, a “calpulli” is an organization within the Aztec city state.
This is a community dance company, yet their productions are Broadway-quality in every dimension. How they achieve this level of excellence with community artists and just a few professionals, is some kind of New York miracle. Their productions should be on Broadway. Calpulli is that good.
Artistic Director and Co-Founder Alberto Lopez Herrera has been recognized by Time Magazine as one of the great “American Voices.” He is a world-class storyteller.
Executive Director and Co-Founder Juan Castano has built an impressive community arts organization.
Associate Artistic Director Grisel Pren gets community dancers to perform like professionals. She mixes classical ballet and Mexican folk dance traditions. A classical ballerina told us that Calpulli performers dance like professional ballet dancers.
Musical Director George Saenz is a graduate of Berklee College of Music which produces an endless stream of Jazz and Latin music stars.