The Desueño Vision Open call for 2018 will take place on January 23rd at Dovetail Studios at 8:30 pm. More information is available.
Desueño Vision Performances – March 2017
Desueño Vision will be performing their new latin jazz piece, Clave, at three events this March. THAWALLS March 9th at Navy Pier – 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm Join Links Hall, Threewalls and Constellation to celebrate Chicago’s rich landscape ofinterdisciplinary artistswith THAWALLS –a multi-disciplinarycollaborative art party and exhibition. Ticket information: http://www.linkshall.org/thawalls/ Strictly Ballroom March 24th […]
Summer Dance at Ping Tom Park
From my first steps inside of Ping Tom Park, it felt like I’d been whisked away to a secret garden. In the recesses of Chinatown lies a serene green space. This park is a haven of tranquility complete with a large pagoda and waterway. The very first time I taught a salsa lesson for SummerDance […]
What does Desueño Mean?
Originally, I chose the name Desueño because it was an amalgamation of my name and the Spanish word for dream. It had always been my dream to have my own dance company. This was the beginning of a journey for me and the dancers who lent their energy and talent to the company. As […]
Desueño Open Call – Contemporary and Latin Teams
Desueño is a dance company using a mix of Latin, Jazz, and Contemporary Movement. This is your opportunity to join the Desueño Latin or Desueño Contemporary Dance Teams. Join us for a choreography session as you learn more about the teams. Both Open Calls will be held on Saturday, March 19th 2016 at Links Hall. […]
Desueño Latin performs at 2016 CISC
Farewell!
8/24/14 This will be the final post for my summer apprenticeship with Denita and Desueño this summer, and I am ending on an exciting note. Denita has decided that Mi Bongo, the piece we’ve been working on, will be a duet. It didn’t feel like a great time to push all this new choreography onto […]
The artist’s intent in Latin dance choreography
8/17/14 As we continue to work on the bachata choreography at Desueño practices, I love feeling the steps become more familiar. Unlike Llego, I was able to learn this choreography from the first day it was taught, which makes it much easier to commit to memory. Today Denita added arms to the choreography, so there’s […]
Mapping it out, slippery foundation
7/3/14 This week I got to make my own energy flow chart for the mambo piece I would be helping create! After listening to Mi Bongo, the mambo song we’d chosen, over and over several times, I made that horizontal line that represented the length of the song and divided the song into sections based […]
Creative Methods
7/27/14 Earlier this week I met with Denita and she walked me through her process for creating choreography. After selecting the song, she creates an energy flow chart for the song to map out what she envisions the dance will look like based on the different sections of the song. For a salsa song for […]