Dance is a response to the needs of identity creation in human beings, an attempt to express feelings, thoughts, emotions. Therefore, this year in UNAM International Dance Dayall attendees are invited to celebrate at the UNAM Cultural Centerunder the motto “Provoking movement.”
For 12 continuous hours, from 10am to 10pm, this April 27 the public will be able to approach more than 170 artistic activities that will take place on 7 stages, which will host artists from different countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Spain.
He University Cultural Center of the University It will open its spaces so that the DID guests don’t stop dancing. The activities will take place in the Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Theater, the Miguel Covarrubias Room and the Dance Hall; and the open forums La Espiga, La Fuente, the Julio Castillo Garden, the esplanade of the Nezahualcóyotl Hall, the Garden of the Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Theater and Parking Lot 3.
Performances from the UNAM Choreographic Workshop (TCUNAM), the UNAM Youth Contemporary Dance Company (DAJU), which will have a participation in collaboration with the Gloria Contreras Extraordinary Chair, will be presented.
In addition to the UNAM Dance Workshops, there will be presentations classical ballet activities, flamenco dance, ballroom dancing, Mexican folklore, Arabic dance, performance, urban dances and more. This year the second Choreographic composition competition will also be held, in which 10 works participate.
Towards the evening, the Colombian group La Explosión in the company of Wilder Gómez will make people dance with a good cumbia.
Dance also has a connection with letters, which is why the DID will have the presentation of the book Dance, inheritances and decolonial provocationsthe third volume of the series Compositions for dissent: Ibero-American perspectives for dance, where Evoé Sotelo, Haydé Lachino, Eugenia Cadús and Ana Patricia Farfán will participate. As a plus, the renowned Spanish choreographer and performer Juan Domínguez will share a sample of the work done with Mexican artists during a three-week residency at Danza UNAM.
To conclude this DID 2024 there will be a presentation with a live broadcast of the Folkloric Ballet of Mexico by Amalia Hernández, in the Miguel Covarrubias Room, in addition to the show by the Musas Sonideras collective, in La Espiga.
