Fourteen dancers graduated from the Mazatlán Professional Dance School and at their graduation function they presented, ‘Department 21’, a contemporary dance show that revealed their high artistic level, technical rigor, passion and commitment to dance.
The Ángela Peralta Theater with all its technical and scenographic elements gave greater projection to the program made up of three choreographies that addressed themes and characters from the contemporary world and Greek mythology.
Piso 14, a choreography created and directed by Víctor Manuel Ruiz, used the chair as a symbol of empowerment, a means of rest, a work artifact, an instrument of torture, and a final destination.
From a scenic point of view, Piso 14 was a captivating work with a solid and particular language on the part of its creator, a piece in which he highlighted the technical and stage mastery of the powerful performers.
Rhesos, a choreography created and directed by Vladimir Rodríguez, brought together all the graduates on stage to interpret the story of a king from Greek mythology who was betrayed and died in his camp.
The piece, interpreted with a subtle and delicate language, included lighting changes among other scenographic elements that connected the public with the energy of the dancers in the story that tries to free the soul from unfair death, cry out for justice and be reborn from the waters. represented by a cloak.
Edén, choreography by Francisco Córdova that flowed under the direction of its creator, brought to the stage the most intimate and emblematic places of human life. The artistic lighting, stage movement, makeup, hairstyle and costumes of the dancers, enhanced the work with which a professional and personal commitment was fulfilled in view of the need of the performers to express their inner world.
The 21st generation of the EPDM graduated: André Allende, Jhoanna Buelna, Donaldo Burgoa, Valeria Cortez, Joel Embriz, Marco Gómez, Diego Hernández, Frida Mar, Yuliana Niño, María Pérez, Carlos Pineda, Karen Quintero, Fernanda Woo and Andrea Zavala .
At the end of the show, the formal ceremony was held where CMA and EPDM managers wished success to the new professional dancers.
The Academic Director of the Municipal Center for the Arts, Liliana Aréchiga told the graduates that they are lucky artists because they were trained in a school where most of the teachers are active artists and the institution enjoys national and international recognition.
“Be confident and proud of the tools you pack. In general, the Municipal Center for the Arts has been a hotbed for artists, and seeks to promote not only skills but values that will serve them beyond their professional life,” she told them.
Claudia Lavista, co-director of the EPDM, highlighted that the school tries not only to train successful dancers, but also human beings who are finding themselves, who want to build a more empathetic, beautiful, vulnerable and supportive world, and they are doing that through art.
The co-director of Delfos contemporary dance highlighted that 25 years after the opening of the EPDM, the graduation of the XXI generation is proof that the effort has been worth it and stressed that those who dedicate themselves to dance do not do anything more by vocation, but by a deep conviction, and by an inner flame, “to which we can only succumb”.
Víctor Ruiz, co-director of the EPDM, assured that the graduates are part of a very talented, creative, powerful and deeply human generation.
Maestro, choreographer and dancer Jhonny Millán addressed emotional words to the graduates:
“I think that together we learned a lot, from failures, from freedom, from love, from empathy, from solidarity, and despite fighting, they never left one another behind, that is important, not to lose track, not to lose control, not to lose the path, removing mud and continue, continue, continue because the goal is not yet seen, it is very high and very far “.
