Luna Negra Dance Theater
Friday, April 16, 7:30 pm
The Englert Theatre
“This company knows what it means to really move—to luxuriate in both the body and the story,” says the Chicago Sun-Times about Luna Negra Dance Theater, a troupe committed to the creation and presentation of dance by Latino choreographers. In fewer than ten years, Cuban-born founder and artistic director Eduardo Vilaro has built an impressive, entrancing company and a repertoire of intermingled contrasts, bringing together the funny and the serious, the passionate and the serene, the adventuresome and the subtle. The program will include There is a Time (an allusion to the Biblical book Ecclesiastes) choreographed by the legendary José Limón.
This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from Iowa Arts Council, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation. There is A Time by José Limón was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
