Dzul Dance Presents the Premiere of the Forest of Kings January 20, 2011

Artistic Director Javier Dzul’s diverse company hails from many different parts of the world and has performed with a vast array of companies including the Martha Graham Company, Cirque du Soleil, Ballet Nacional de Mexico, Eliot Feld Ballet, Korean National Ballet Company, Buglisi Dance Theater and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. With this eclectic and talented group, Javier Dzul has created a movement vocabulary that embodies his own unique style, and pushes the boundaries of the human body and imagination.

In his latest choreography, Forest of Kings, Dzul company founder and artistic director, Javier Dzul reflects on his childhood growing up in the Mayan culture in the jungles of southern Mexico. He explores his experiences with the Mayan rituals of transformation and examines his past relationship and connection to the natural world. Dzul transforms his company of aerialists and dancers into breathtaking earthbound and airborne forces of nature, more than ever before.

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