Realismo Mágico
REALISMO MÁGICO — a multidisciplinary project at BAM Fisher, presented as part of the TAKEOVERS series.
This piece premiered at BAM Fisher in February 2025/ Directed and choreographed by Claudia Hilda/ Costumes by Highcotour designer ASHLYN/ Special costume by Celia Ledón/ Performers: Danny Rodriguez, Jara Fonseca, Leidy Torres, Maria Fernández Baró, Kenzo Carrión, John Luis Delgado, Andrés Ascanio/ Original musical composition by Andrés Levin, JIHAE, Yasel Muñoz, and Pacho Chibás/ Lighting and visual design by Diana Carmenate
Las Repúblicas
Las Repúblicas stands as a groundbreaking contemporary dance project, commissioned by The Society Of The Four Arts, FL. It premiered at the Walter S. Gublemann Auditorium, 2024.
Director and choreographer: Claudia Hilda/ Performers and collaborators: Leyna González, Kelvis Reinoso, Daniela Cepero, Leidy Torres, Andrés Ascanio, Kenzo Carrión/ Composer: Andrés Levin/Pacho Chibás/Jihae / Visual Artist: Diana Carmenate/ Duration: 1 hourhow PARTNERS
Arazá
A hybrid performance and video art work, tracing two women’s intimate passage toward awareness as they uncover the suffocating force behind a seemingly “juicy” fruit and devour it as an act of liberation and shared strength.
Director & choreographer: Claudia Hilda/ Performers and collaborators: Danny Rodriguez and Laura Garcia/ Composer: Yasel Munoz/ Cinematographer & Visual Direction: Adriano Toledo/ Duration: 8min
Méritos
This hybrid performance–video art piece follows a performer who strips away the golden medals pressed onto her body, exposing the fragile line between glory and captivity as she reclaims herself piece by piece.
Director and choreographer: Claudia Hilda/ Performer and collaborator: Kelvis Reinoso/ Composer: Yasel Munoz/ Cinematographer & Visual Direction: Adriano Toledo/ Duration: 10min
Podium
Podium discourses about the arbitrary and unregulated exercise of power. The performer will become the power itself, yet she will feel the suffering of obscurity as she will collapse as a kind of a self material implosion.
Director and choreographer: Claudia Hilda/ Performer and collaborator: Neisy Alpizar/ Composer: Yasel Munoz/ Cinematographer: Adriano Toledo/ Duration: 9min
Syllable
Syllable is a bold piece of contemporary operatic storytelling, commissioned by Trinity Laban in partnership with Decipherer Arts Projects, and made possible through the support of England Arts Council. It premiered in London, 2022.
Composer: Edward Jessen/ Director: Joseph Alford/ Conductor: Gregory Rose/ Designer; Molly Einchcomb/ Projection Design: Akhila Krishnan/ Cast:Primo Actor Claudia Hilda Rodriguez Pozo/ Haitch Soprano Olivia Bell, Juliet Wallace*/ Kael Soprano Anna Pych, Miranda Ostler*/ Elém Mezzo Hester Dart, Amy Kearsley*/ Énnopee Mezzo Imogen Burgess/ Phiste Tenor Charles McGlone, Sholto Biscoe-Taylor*/ Pahlme Bass-Baritone Zeshaan Mahmood, Niall Windass*
La Habitación
La habitación is a dance piece that articulates exploratory living processes. It seamlessly blends everyday pedestrian gestures, rooted in the rich Cuban body language, with the aesthetics of minimal art. The piece navigates the delicate boundary between minimalistic dance and the baroque Cuban style, both of which are deeply embedded in the performer’s body, creating a dynamic and evocative exploration of cultural and artistic contrasts.
Choreographer and performer: Claudia Hilda/ Musician: Lili Chacón
Quarks
“Quarks” is a term used in the field of Physics that refers to an elementary particle whose existence is never isolated, but rather associated with a group. This piece explores the definition of Quarks, in which the two dancers establish an inseparable relationship of cohesion and critical coexistence reinventing and rethinking their public/private space. They enhance the power of an imaginary room, in which reflect, create, and coexist...
“Quarks” was created by dancer and choreographer Claudia Hilda in collaboration with Cuban dancer Danny Quintana/ Music Composed by: Pepe Gavilondo.
It premiered at Venice International Art Fair 2021.
3WM
'“3WM” is a multidisciplinary piece inspired by the dogma of the Holy Trinity "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit". Within the piece, Claudia Hilda reconverted an eminently masculine Trinity into a creative feminine Triad, “God the Mother”. 3WM is a conceptual-creative space in which questioning the technologies of normalization, and objectification through which the female body has been constructed.
Following the imagination of the trilogies this work uses Batá drums, sacred instruments used in the toques of the Regla de Ocha that are always played together, as a family of three. …….all became arithmetic, algebra, geometry, a great trinity, a luminous feminine triangle!
Directed and choreographed by Claudia Hilda/ Performers and collaborators: Iliana Solis, Danny Quintana, Claudia Hilda/ Composer and music director: Andrés Levin/ Visual artist: Mauricio Abad/ Musicians: Rodney Barreto, José Ángel Blanco, David Abreu, Bárbaro Crespo (Machito), Yandy García, Degnis Bofil, Oliver Valdés, and Yaroldi Abreu.
Duration: A 30min contemporary dance project
Danza Contemporánea de Cuba
From 2013 to 2023, Claudia Hilda worked as a principal dancer for the Cuban National Company of Contemporary Dance (Danza Contemporánea de Cuba). She collaborated with worldwide international creators and performed neoclassical, contemporary, and conceptual dance pieces in major theaters across the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, England, Scotland, Colombia, Mexico, New York, Russia, and France.
Transitions Dance Company
From 2020 to 2022 Claudia Hilda was part of Transitions Dance Company in London, UK. She collaborated and performed in innovative works created by the choreographers: Dog Kennel Hill Project, Did Veldman and Rahel Vonmoos, which allowed her to expand her artistic boundaries and explore her art practice through both practice and theory. She approached dance and choreography as an intellectual exercise that opened creative paths not only for performing but for writing, and directing.
