Jamal Rashann Callender and Lauren Alzamora in Ballet Hispanico’s Sortijas, June 20, 2014. Photo: Grant Halverson ©ADF.

Ballet Hispanico gave a sensuous and thought-provoking performance to begin the American Dance Festival’s second week on June 20-21. Its highlights were Cayetano Soto‘s dark, spiky male-female duet Sortijas, set to a haunting song by Lhasa de Sela, and a new work by Rosie Herrera, Show.Girl, which looks at Cuban-American Latina identity, Miami version. Herrera continues to refine her unique sensibility without suppressing its outrageous vitality, and Show.Girl may prove a pivotal dance in her career.

Read my full review here, published June 21, 2014 on cvnc.org. 

From the first act of Rosie Herrera’s operatic cabaret dance-theatre work, Show.Girl,                     June 20, 2014. Photo: Grant Halverson ©ADF.

Not even the most amazing moment in the second act fan dance of Show.Girl. June 20, 2014.       Photo: Grant Halverson ©ADF.

Ballet Hispanico in Eduardo Vilaro’s Danzon. Photo: © Paula Lobo.