Artist Exchange
CCL ARTIST EXCHANGE PROJECT
Conceived in 2009, the Artist Exchange program supports worthy dancers, directors, and choreographers in both California and in México by facilitating a bilateral educational exchange. The recipients residing in México have come to the Bay Area to study and to share their craft. The recipients residing in the USA have gone to México to study and perfect their craft.
If you are interested in initiating or co-sponsoring an artist exchange with CCL, please contact us.
EXCHANGES oVER THE YEARS
2020
In 2020 our resident artist will be José Felipe Martínez Baez, Director of the Ballet Folklórico P’indekua from Morelia, Michoacán. Maestro Martínez Baez will spend a week in residency with Los Lupeños in late March and also offer a public workshop and multiple public lectures about his home state Michoacán.
Maestro Martínez’ visit was postponed to spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
José Felipe Martínez Baez
2018
Our 2018 artist was Angel Ciro Silvestre García, Artistic Director of the Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, México. Maestro Silvestre García spent a week in residency working with Los Lupeños dancers to recreate an indigenous wedding, Boda en Chicontepec, which debuted at our TRIBUTO concert in September, 2018. Maestro Silvestre García also gave a public workshop and multiple public lectures about the traditions of his home state Veracruz.
Angel Ciro Silvestre García
2015
Our 2015 artist was Marco Antonio Ojeda García, master instructor from La Paz, Baja California Sur who spent a week working with Los Lupeños Performing Company on a new suite of coastal dances from his hometown. The new suite debuted in the Tierra Mestiza concerts on September 24th and 25th, 2016 at the Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater in San José, California.
Marco Antonio Ojeda García
2014
Ignacio Sánchez Verduzco
2013
Our 2013 artists were Magdalena Vega and Arturo Magaña, dancers/instructors from Los Lupeños that had a week-long residency at the University of Colima under the tutelage of celebrated master instructor Rafael Zamarripa. There they had both daily lectures and movement workshops focused on learning an original choreodrama entitled “La Marcela” which was brought back and added to Los Lupeños’ repertoire.
Magdalena Vega
Arturo Magaña
2012
Ignacio Sánchez Verduzco
2011
Our 2011 artist was Rosie Chavarria Peña from Los Angeles, California. Rosie travelled to Chapala, Jalisco, México to work with Cashion Cultural Legacy founder Susan Cashion to document the early days of Mexican folklórico dance in California. The product of this collaboration was the publication “No Boots”.
Rosie Chavarria Peña
2010
Our 2010 artist was René González from Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. In the Bay Area, René experienced contemporary dance with Robert Moses in San Francisco and set a new suite of dances, Plaza Guadalajara, for Los Lupeños de San José. Plaza Guadalajara is the work of renowned choreographer René Arce and was debuted in the San Francisco Dance Festival in 2011. In 2011, René also taught a selection from his choreography “De Rojo la Noche” which was performed by Los Lupeños in their show “Con todo el corazón” at the Theatre on San Pedro Square.
René González
