Ballet Hispánico “50 Year Legacy Experience”

Ballet Hispánico “50 Year Legacy Experience”

with Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro

Watch the free virtual event beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17. It will be available for streaming until 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24.

The Center for the Performing Arts debut of the recorded performance, at 7:30 p.m. March 17, will be followed by a live conversation between Eduardo Vilaro and Amy Dupain Vashaw, the center’s audience and program development director.

In its most recent performance at Eisenhower Auditorium, in 2018, Ballet Hispánico focused on dances by Latina choreographers. In this recorded video event, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro guides viewers on a journey through his company’s past, present, and future.

From the literal and metaphorical burning of New York City in the 1970s through the company’s fiftieth-anniversary celebration, the event showcases some of dance’s most influential, innovative, and inspiring artists. Vilaro narrates the video, which showcases beautiful and engaging Latinx repertories.

Founded in 1970 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan by Tina Ramirez, Ballet Hispánico has become a catalyst for bringing communities together to celebrate and explore Latinx cultures from around the world. The company, representing a number of nationalities, brings to the stage training in modern and classical dance plus ballet.

A former Ballet Hispánico dancer, Cuban-born Vilaro has—as choreographer, artistic director, and CEO since 2009—infused the company with a vision of social equality, cultural identity, and quality arts education.

“Ballet Hispánico has been a gem of the New York dance scene for years …,” writes a Village Voice reviewer. “Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro gives his troupe … opportunities to work with choreographers from around the world, producing contemporary works of bold technique that illuminate concerns of Latino/a identity and resiliency.”