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Past
Performances

Your participation is a huge part of our work. Please join us to continue celebrating Cuba's cultural heritage derived from African cultures and let's strive to maintain the live music dance community in the New York City and beyond!

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11th World Music and Dance Concert at Ohio University, April 2023

"Super Sabado: The Spirit of Art" at El Museo del Barrio, March 2023

Harlem Week: Harlem Havana at Lincoln Center Outdoor, August 2022

Mickela Mallozzi's Bare Feet Downtown Brooklyn, July 2022

Festival del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, July 2022

Bronxrising, Bronx Music Heritage Center, May 2022

"Oni Oni, post premiere workshop and demonstration, Salvation Army Harlem Center, April 2022

"Oni Oni", Premiere Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture April 2022

"ORO" SACRED TRADITIONS: EL NUEVO ORO: A NEW GENERATION OF YORUBA SACRED SOUND

presented by Caribbean Cultural Center, December 2021

ABC News’ “Soul of a Nation” during its airing of “Corazon de America: Celebrating Hispanic Culture.”

"Esperanza",  Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, New York, October 2021

Motherland Dances Outdoor Festival at Queens Theater, July 2021

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's Open Studios Artists-in-Residency program April - July 2021

Drums Along the Hudson Festival, Inwood Hill Park June 2021

"Oda", Motherland Dances Festival at Queens Theater, June 2021

World Dance Passport, Anne Loftus Playground, June 2021

FIDANZ, dance festival in Santiago de Cuba, April  2021 (virtual)

“Open Aire” rehearsal organized by the Brooklyn Bridge Park November 2020

Dance Rising NYC movement October 2020

Harlem Havana Festival, New York, August 2020 (virtual)

“World Dance Passport” Festival, May 2020 (virtual)

"Guerreros Lucumies", at Salvatore Capezio Theater / Peridance Capezio Center, New York, November 2019

Harlem Havana Festival, New York, August 2019

"Siete Mares", Cuban Premiere, with Ballet Folklórico Cutumba, Teatro Heredia de Santiago de Cuba, June 2019

Kuwanza Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, December 2018

Harlem Havana Festival, New York, August 2018

International African Arts Festival, New York July 2018

“Africania”, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Stage, June 2018

“Del Caribe Soy”, Roulette, Brooklyn, New York  June 2018

“Herencia Africana”, Hostos Center for Arts and Culture, NY November 2017

Fiesta Del Fuego (International Caribbean Festival), Santiago de Cuba July 2017

“Siete Mares”, at Aaron Davis Hall, New York December 2016

“Cuba Baila”, at Harlem School of the Arts, New York, November 2016

“El Iyawo”, at Teatro Mella, Havana Cuba  July 2016

“Fragmentos Afro Cubanos”, at Kumble Theater, Brooklyn, November 2016

WOFABE African Dance & Drum Festival, New Jersey Symphony Hall, March 2016

Brooklyn Museum First Saturday, October 2015

Antillean Ode, Teatro Latea, New York Jun 2015

“El Iyawo” , Teatro Latea, March 2015

“El Iyawo”, 2014 Premiere, at Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY, June 2014
“Ode Ha Nuestras Raices Africanas” at Dance Africa Denver, at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance theatre, Denver, CO, May 2014
“Tributo” and “Oriki ha Obba Ilu” at Dance Africa Pittsburgh, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 
Dance Africa Pittsburgh, PA, April 2014
Teatro Pregones, Bronx Aug 4th 2013

Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Aug 3rd 2013

PATAKIN "El Reino de Los Orishas", The Theatre for the Riverside Church, June 2013

Tempo Bantu, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out stage, June 2013

“Aro de Yemaya”, NCA tribute to  Elizabeth Catlett, Schomburg Center, NY February 2013

ESPECTÁCULO AFROCARIBEÑO , APAP Showcase, The Ailey Studios, New York, NY, Jan 2013

St. Francis College Spring Lecture and performance, Brooklyn 2013

Destellos Africanos Cubanos, PAE Showcase, The Colony Theater, Miami September 2012

Target Passport Fridays 2012, Queens Museum of Art, NY July 2012

World Dance Performance, Ailey Citigroup Theater, NY June 2012

Destellos Africanos Cubanos, Dance Africa at BAM Howard Guilman Opera House, New York May 2012

Tribute to Ancestors, New York, NY March 2012

Fiesta Cubana, Hamilton University, NY, February 2012

Rezo a Babaluaye, Hostos Center for Arts and Culture, NY December 2011

Patakin for Chango, Ailey Citigroup Theater, NY December 2011

Fiesta Cubana, the Chase Latino Cultural Festival Opening Night at Queens Theater in the Park on July 20th

Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out stage on July 13th, 2011

New Orleans Dance Festival on July 2nd,2011

Identidad, Flint Hills International Children's Festival at the Ordway Theater, Minnesota June 2011

Identidad, Seventh Annual CubaCaribe Dance and Music Festival, San Francisco May 2011

El Poder de Mi Folklore, WOFABE African Dance & Drum Festival, New Jersey Symphony Hall, Oct 2010

Fusion  Afro Caribe, "World City" Series at Music Center of LA, Los Angeles Oct 2010

Fusion Caribe, Houston International Festival, Houston TX April 2010

LUCHA Gala, NYU, NY April 2010

Elogio, APAP Showcase, The Ailey Studios, New York, NY, Jan 2010

Tributo, Heritage Sunday at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors, NY JULY 2009

Ceremonial de la Danza, Chase Latino Cultural Festival, Queens Theatre, NY  JULY 2009

Danzas Afro-Cubanas, Brown University, MA 2009

Maferefun, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, New York, NY November 2008

Raices y Estampas Cubanas, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Queens, NY  October 2008

Cubaila, The Ailey Studio, NY, NY August 2008

Merengue Haitiano, BRIC Studio, Brooklyn, NY May 2008

Cubaila, the Fourth Annual CubaCaribe Dance and Music Festival, San Francisco 2008

Vodu, Black History Month Performance, The Academy of Urban Planning, Brooklyn, NY 2008

Mayombes & Kimbisas,10th Annual Circle of Art Awards, Nubian Women’s Art Circle, Inc., NY 2007

Mayomberos, BRIC (Brooklyn Information & Culture) studio, Brooklyn, NY 2007

Palenque, La Mama Experimental Dance Theatre, NY, NY 2007

Pinceladas Franco-Haitianas-Cubanas, La Mama Moves Dance Festival, NY, NY 2006

Dahomeyan Dance, Black History Month Performance, Martin Luther King High School, NY, NY 2006

Mosaicos Afro-Cubanos, SOBs (Sounds of Brazil), NY, NY 2006   

La Fami Samble’, Djoniba Dance & Drum Center Annual Dance Festival, NY, NY 2005, 2006

Mayor Mache' y Palo Monte, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal, Canada 1999

Fiesta en el Batey, Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI 1996, 1997

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