VIENNA — Vienna Union Hall and Camp Bearnstow present a formal Mexican Folklorico performance by Jonathan Trejo and Kareli Montoya, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 26, at the Union Hall.
Tickets are $8 for adults and may purchased at the door.
Trejo of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is a professional dancer at Ballet Folklorico of the University of Colima, Mexico, and is a consultant, choreographer and honorary assistant director for Ballet Folklórico of Los Angeles. He also teaches art in elementary school in Colima. He has a bachelor’s degree in art with major in stage dance from the University of Colima.
Trejo has been dancing most of his life. He specializes in the training of Mexican folk dancers, dance for children, stage lighting, and in creating movement from the exploration of emotion and energy.
Kareli Montoya founded Ballet Folklorico de Los Ángeles in 2011 and the BFLA Performing Arts Academy, currently known as the Ballet Folklorico Company, in 2013. She has choreographed more than 50 original pieces. In March, the video of her choreographic mariachi remake of “A Tale as Old as Time,” went viral on the web with nearly 14 million views in less than a month.
Trejo and Montoya have been working together since 2012 creating several choreographic works, leading workshops, co-producing concerts, and dancing together on several stages in Las Vegas, Nevada; Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Culver City, Redlands and Commerce, all in California; Murfreesboro, Tennessee; and Guadalajara, Jalisco and Colima in Mexico.
On Saturday, Sept. 2, Camp Bearnstow, the noted dance camp on Parker Pond, will present the season finale of its young residency program at 7:30 p.m. at the Union Hall.
Dancers include Angela Cole, Marc Ferarro, Chaesong Kim, Mario Hernan, Owen Prum and Ellen Oliver. For more information and bios of these dancers go to Camp Bearnstow.org.
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