Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is a strong New York Mexican folkloric dance company. A “calpulli” is a traditional Aztec community.
This is a community dance company that performs like professionals with world-class storytelling. Calpulli has a touring company; dance, music, and costume design programs; and teaching artists who do community outreach across Metro New York.
It’s incredible what Calpulli does with a small professional core. This is the power of the New York Mexican community.
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Monarcas” Celebrates the Contributions and Sacrifices Mexican Immigrants Make for the USA
These are the first stories in a new Mexican folkloric dance series celebrating immigrant contributions. “Company E” celebrates Mexican American soldiers in the US Army. “Viñedos” celebrates Mexican American families who helped build California’s wine industry.
QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Saturday-Sunday, May 27-28, 2023
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“Navidad: A Mexican-American Christmas” by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is at Hostos Center
Sunday, December 18, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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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 Community Day & Fiesta Outdoors at the Queens Theatre
Saturday, July 24, 2021
QUEENS THEATRE
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
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Continue Reading Calpulli Mexican Dance Community Day & Fiesta Outdoors at the Queens Theatre
Calpulli Presents the Streaming Premiere of their Wonderful Christmas Show “Navidad: A Mexican-American Christmas”
calpullidance.org | Christmas Day, Friday, December 25, 2021 🇲🇽 🎄
Summer Streets 2019
Sat, August 3, 10 & 17, 2019
MANHATTAN ~ Seven miles of city streets become a long pedestrian mall with rest stops that offer free African, Brazilian, Disability, French, Indigenous, Mexican, Peruvian and Puerto Rican entertainment and family activities
Calpulli ‘Día de los Muertos’ on NY1
Enscenario: El Día de Muertos Llega al Town Hall
by Fernando Cárdenas
NY1 Theater Reporter
November 3, 2017
Calpulli ‘Día de los Muertos’ on NBC News
What’s El Día de los Muertos? It’s Not Scary, and It’s Not Halloween
by Kristina Puga
November 1, 2017
Calpulli “Día de los Muertos”
Thursday, October 26, 2017
COUNT BASIE THEATRE
Red Bank, New Jersey
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
QUEENS THEATRE
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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Saturday, November 4, 2017
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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This Day of the Dead story is so good it should be on Broadway
The Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Creative Team is Exceptional
The company was founded in New York in 2003.
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Artistic Director and Co-Founder Alberto Lopez Herrera has been named one of Time Magazine’s great “American Voices.” He is a world-class storyteller.
Executive Director and Co-Founder Juan Castaño 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 dancers perform like professional ballet dancers. Pren is the heart of the company.
Musical Director George Saenz is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, which produces an endless stream of successful jazz and Latin music stars.
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