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Ballet Hispánico

October 1, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

RiverArts and Tarrytown Music Hall Presents Ballet Hispánico
Saturday, October 1, 2022
7:30 PM
Tarrytown Music Hall
Tarrytown, NY
RiverArts welcomes you to join us for a night of Latinx dance celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month and featuring Ballet Hispánico. Premium ticket holders will enjoy the best seats in the house as well as an After-Party where you will enjoy light refreshments and salsa dancing with the dancers from Ballet Hispánico right after the concert.

National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez founded Ballet Hispánico in 1970, at the height of the post-war civil rights movements. From its inception Ballet Hispánico focused on providing a haven for Black and Brown Latinx youth and families seeking artistic place and cultural sanctuary. By providing the space for Latinx dance and dancers to flourish, Ballet Hispánico uplifted marginalized emerging and working artists, which combined with the training, authenticity of voice, and power of representation, fueled the organization’s roots and trajectory. In 2009, Ballet Hispánico welcomed Eduardo Vilaro as its Artistic Director, ushering in a new era by inserting fresh energy to the company’s founding values and leading Ballet Hispánico into an artistically vibrant future. Today, Ballet Hispánico’s New York City headquarters house a School of Dance and state-of-the-art dance studios for its programs and the arts community. From its grassroots origins as a dance school and community-based performing arts troupe, for fifty years Ballet Hispánico has stood as a catalyst for social change.

Ballet Hispánico provides the physical home and cultural heart for Latinx dance in the United States. Ballet Hispánico has developed a robust public presence across its three main programs: its Company, School of Dance, and Community Arts Partnerships.

Through its exemplary artistry, distinguished training program, and deep-rooted community engagement efforts Ballet Hispánico champions and amplifies underrepresented voices in the field. For fifty years Ballet Hispánico has provided a place of honor for the omitted, overlooked, and oppressed. As it looks to the next fifty years and beyond, Ballet Hispánico seeks to empower, and give agency to, the Latinx experience and those individuals within it.

“both earthy and classically elegant” – New York Times

“smashingly theatrical” – Chicago Sun Times

“a cutting edge crowd pleaser” – Washington Post

“Ballet Hispánico delivers spirited fun.” – The Boston Globe

“Empowering voices the world needs to hear.” – Mackenzie Scott

“One of America’s Cultural Treasures.” – Ford Foundation

Don’t miss this opportunity to see this internationally-renowned dance company perform three of their signature pieces in the heart of the Rivertowns.

Details

Date:
October 1, 2022
Time:
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
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Event Tags:
https://tickets.tarrytownmusichall.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=2617

Venue

Tarrytown Music Hall
13 Main St Floor 2
Tarrytown, 10591
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