On the afternoon of April 29th, the José Limón International Dance Festival presented the screening of the program “Ondulaciones” at Casa Haas, part of the Official Selection of the Northwest Network of Dance Festivals.
Natalia Quezada Shrimpton, originally from Mérida, Yucatán, is co-director of the Coctelito de Videodanza project, a platform for the dissemination, promotion, and production of dance videos.
She explained that “Ondulaciones” consists of seven short films included in the 2025 Official Selection of Coctelito de Videodanza and was curated with co-director Wilber Mendoza to present different works that represent dance in different ways and styles, and how a body can be represented on screen in different ways.
The seven works feature solos, trios, and groups from different countries such as the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Cyprus. A piece directed by Frida Mar, whose dancers are graduates of the Mazatlán Professional Dance School, prompted Coctelito de Videodanza to present it in Mazatlán as part of the program at the 38th José Limón International Dance Festival, a long-standing festival and one of the longest-running in the country, boasting widespread exposure and reach, she said.
Natalia Quezada highlighted the screening of the work “Anemones,” a self-produced piece.
Videodance is an artistic expression that combines choreographic and cinematic languages through the vision of each of the artists, along with the choreographers and photographers, in which they converse between both languages, resulting in a very interesting multidisciplinary artistic expression.
Coctelito de Video Danza has been selected for two consecutive years for the Noroeste Network of Dance Festivals, and this was the first of four screenings that will take place in Culiacán, Mexicali, and Tijuana to continue promoting the art form in the country.
