Choreographer

In Jacklean (in rehearsal) choreographer Mariana Valencia and musician Jazmin “Jazzy” Romero improvise dance, sound, and text to propose that the rehearsal process can be the performance. Drawing on their shared Latina identity—Valencia’s Guatemalan, and Romero’s Salvadorian and Mexican descent—this piece considers their queer, Brown, and first-generation immigrant experiences. Valencia’s dance draws on everyday gestures, social dance, freestyle, and postmodern traditions, and is accompanied by Romero’s polyvocal repertoire of cumbia, punk, jazz, and electronic music in a dynamic interplay. Jacklean (in rehearsal) considers the interplay between the individual, the collective, and inherited intergenerational transmission, in a work that savors the thrill of the unexpected.

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Jacklean (in rehearsal)

Walt Disney Concert Hall

JACKLEAN is an improvisation between choreographer Mariana Valencia and musician Jazmin Romero. A we/us exchange between the artists proposes that the rehearsal process is also the practice of performance. Valencia and Romero create, revise, and surrender to their forms in real time. JACKLEAN is a performance riff and the path toward a new tableaux for improvisation.

Choreographer

Mariana Valencia

Events

Past events

24 - 25 Apr, 2025

Jacklean (in rehearsal) · Redcat - Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

12 - 15 Jan, 2023

Jacklean · Public Theater

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