Jul 19, 2019

CHATHAM LIFE & STYLE

Rejecting expectation is the modus operandi of Canadian-born Aszure Barton's sharp 2016 work [Indomitable Waltz]...However Fosse-like they may appear, with hips popping like Lady Gaga backup dancers, there is never style for style's sake...

Jul 12, 2019

CVNC

With great risk comes great reward, and the American Dance Festival crowd at Duke's Page Auditorium was the blessed beneficiary of the "malpaso" (Spanish for "misstep") that the Cuban Malpaso Dance Company took to get to this point...

Mar 06, 2019

TIMES UNION

There is a saying in Cuba that Cubans were born dancing. From the influence of West African and Caribbean cultures to the invention of the mambo in the 1930s by native Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez, dance is central to Cuba's history, culture and religious traditions.

But over the last seven years, the Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company has been striving to remedy an underdeveloped area of Cuban dance: contemporary choreography...

Mar 05, 2019

WTTW

For the latest instalment in the Auditorium Theatre’s “Made in Chicago” 312 Dance Series, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago came up with the inspired idea to mix things up by entering into a collaboration with the Malpaso Dance Company, Cuba’s foremost contemporary troupe.

The result, showcased in a brief engagement this past weekend, was a stunning program...

Mar 04, 2019

SEE CHICAGO DANCE

...Eventually, the women found their way to each other once again, hugging and tenderly swaying o stage, all the while the man’s voice filled the space with raw emotion.

It's a moment that could only be cultivated from a Chicago choreographer collaborating with a Cuban dance company...

Jan 02, 2019

LAKE CHAMPLAIN WEEKLY

The government had shut him down. Slammed the door in his face, honestly, all but ripping up the nascent choreographer’s application for funding...

Jul 01, 2018

MY ENTERTAINMENT WORLD

Sitting in the audience of a dance performance, feeling fully enveloped by the movement, is one of the most delicious experiences I can think of. The Cuban based Malpaso Dance Company brought to Luminato 2018 three mesmerizing performances that, along with the superb accompaniment of Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, suspended time and transported me to different worlds...

Jan 19, 2018

THE VILLAGE VOICE

​Nine passionate dancers make up the budding Cuban contemporary troupe Malpaso Dance Company, showcased at the Joyce Theater Wednesday night. Yet to these dancers, the setting was more than just another venue...

Dec 03, 2017

LA TIMES

The Cuba-based Malpaso Dance Company’s Los Angeles debut Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was a pinch-me moment, one of those times when you catch an artistic dawning.

Malpaso’s dancers were exceptional...

Nov 13, 2017

D MAGAZINE

​On Friday and Saturday, the Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company, Cuba's first independent dance company, named after the Spanish word for "misstep," debuted with TITAS Presents, and the emotion brought me back to my first vision of Kibbutz. This was one of the most stunning things I had ever seen...

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Mar 02, 2017

EL DARIO

Honor, determinación, pér- dida y la insoportable leve- dad del ser son algunos de los temas que se tratan y se bai- lan en “Dreaming of Lions” (Soñando con leones), la úl- tima obra que la compañía cubana de danza Malpaso presenta este n de semana en Brooklyn...

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Feb 26, 2017

SUSAN BROILI ARTS

Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company and New York’s Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble had the packed (sold-out) audience on its feet after the U.S. premiere of Osnel Delgado’s “Dreaming Of Lions” on Friday (Feb. 24) the first of a two-night run at Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater.

This evening turned out to be a triple treat of live music, dance and the fact that the inspiration for this new work had come from Ernest Hemingway’s novella “The Old Man and the Sea." ...

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Feb 23, 2017

THE HERALD SUN

In Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” Santiago, an old fisherman, dreams of his boyhood in Africa where he saw lions playing like cubs on the beach. Chances are, Hemingway never dreamt that the Cuba he loved, lived and fished in would ever produce a modern dance company that would create a work based on his 1952 novella that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and figured into the Nobel Prize in Literature he received in 1954...

Feb 08, 2017

PALM BEACH ARTSPAPER

When one sees a great deal of dance, it’s always thrilling to experience a work that is richly unique in its movement vocabulary and is performed by a group of dancers who move in an exceptional way. I always hope to be totally caught up — delightfully submerged — in the artistry and creativity onstage, but it just doesn’t happen that often.

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But then unexpectedly, and for one delicious moment, it does... 

Jan 06, 2017

MIAMI NEW TIMES

Myth has it that a Cuban who doesn’t dance is a rare creature. You could live a lifetime without seeing one, like the endangered Florida panther.

“We come from a dancing island,” explains Fernando Sáez, founder and executive director of Cuban contemporary dance company Malpaso...

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Jan 07, 2017

MIAMI HERALD

Cuban Malpaso Dance Company returned to Miami Friday to an enthusiastic welcome at the Adrienne Arsht Center, of the kind rarely given to modern dance companies...

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Jan 04, 2017

MIAMI HERALD

The Cuban modern dance troupe Malpaso has lived a kind of dizzying artistic fairy tale since relations between the United States and Cuba opened up two years ago. They’ve worked with top U.S. choreographers and performed at the most prestigious venues in this country, receiving mostly glowing reviews. They’re sponsored by renowned New York dance presenter Joyce Theater Foundation — an enviable position for any ensemble...

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May 06, 2016

THE NEW YORK TIMES

HAVANA — Idania Wambrug teaches dance in a capacious, brick-vaulted studio with so much light streaming down from high windows that it almost feels like an outdoor pavilion. It’s the same studio where she was a student in the 1960s, and over the years, all that natural light has been helpful when the electricity has gone out...

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May 11, 2016

THE NEW YORK TIMES

It’s been two years since the Havana-based company Malpaso made its international debut at the Joyce Theater. On Tuesday the troupe returned there as part of the two-week Cuba Festival, with a program almost identical to the one it presented in 2014...

Sep 16, 2015

ARTS ATL

When Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cuba for the reopening of the U.S. Embassy on August 14, the Havana ­based Malpaso Dance Company was in the United States, performing on Martha’s Vineyard. And when Pope Francis visits Cuba on September 19, Malpaso will be performing in Atlanta as part of the National Black Arts Festival...

Aug 07, 2015

THE BOSTON GLOBE

BECKET — If our country’s relaxing of sanctions with Cuba continues, perhaps visits from the likes of the Havana ­based Malpaso Dance Company, performing at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, will be more frequent. Given this contemporary company’s compelling, handsomely ­trained dancers, more appearances would be most welcome...

Aug 07, 2015

TIMES UNION

Founded just three years ago in Havana, Cuba, Malpaso Dance Company looks as if it's been around forever. The 10 dancers, many of whom trained at Cuba's National Ballet Company, bring ease, sophistication and a remarkable quality of presence to the stage...

Jun 25, 2015

NOW MAGAZINE TORONTO

For those who feel contemporary dance doesn’t always have enough, well, dance, I have a

suggestion. Catch one of the two remaining performances of Cuba’s Malpaso Dance

Company at Luminato. Buzz about the three-year-old company is growing as they take their first steps off the island...

Mar 02, 2015

THE PITTSBURGH EXAMINER

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As part of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s World Stage Series, Malpaso Dance Company made their Pittsburgh premiere over the weekend. The company is based in Havana, and was founded just three years ago. Dance Magazine already named them as one of their top 25 to watch. And The New York Times hailed their “pristine technique.”...

Jun 12, 2014

CUBAN ART NEWS

MalPaso, a Havana-based contemporary dance company, had a successful debut in the United States at the Joyce Theater of New York on May 27–June 1, 2014, then moved on to perform in Miami June 4-6. Dancers Osnel Delgado Wamburg and Daileidys Carrazana Gonzalez, both formerly with Cuba’s largest contemporary dance company, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, founded MalPaso in December 2012. ​

May 24, 2014

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, the national modern dance company, first performed in the United States in 2011. The date is noteworthy, since the troupe was founded more than 50 years earlier, in the same year that Fidel Castro came to power...

May 28, 2014

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Some dance troupes might need a few years and a few false starts to develop a program fit for international touring. Not the 10­member MalPaso Dance Company, from Havana, which made its United States debut — its first appearance outside Cuba — on Tuesday at the Joyce Theater...