For more than 25 years, the multidimensional company Ballet Hispanico has become one of the icons of Latino culture. Fusing Latin dance with classical and contemporary techniques, they create a new style of concert dance incorporating theatricality, passion, and choreographers representing Venezuela, Cuba, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
Ballet Hispánico presents world premieres by Bennyroyce Royon and Edwaard Liang that explore the vast connections between the Latino and Asian diasporas. In separate but related works, Royon and Liang touch on historic issues that are particularly resonant today, including migration, immigration, journeying, and assimilation. The program also features Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s stirring Sombrerísimo, an absorbing exploration of identity, which references the surrealist world of Belgian painter René Magritte.
