Podium
Podium discourses about the arbitrary and unregulated exercise of power. The performer as “the supreme leader” delivers a devotional speech filled with empty phrases and sounds trying to seed her compulsive ideology. There is a considerable display of “revolutionary excitement”, heroism, and boisterous violence. 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
Arazá
Arazá or Guayabo is the tree of guayabas (guavas). In Cuba and other Latin countries, people refer to lies as guayabas. Thus, within this piece, this fruit symbolizes all the lies hidden beneath a thick, appealing, and pulpy crust. The two women will embark on the most intimate journey from intuition to consciousness unveiling their physical, and spiritual truths. They will come to the realization that the juicy fruit is in reality an ossified power structure that suffocates their individual rights under oppressive and failed socio-political systems. So they will intentionally devour and disappear the fruit as the ultimately highest gesture of empowerment, and sorority.
Director and choreographer: Claudia Hilda/ Performers and collaborators: Danny Rodriguez and Laura Garcia/ Composer: Yasel Munoz/ Cinematographer: Adriano Toledo/ Duration: 8min
Méritos
This work discourses how unbearable it can become to carry a lifetime devotion to a failed social-political system, and the late transition to an awakening and liberation. The countless merits that the performer wears in the piece, will become a hardship to hold, since it's not clear anymore the worth and truth behind them. The golden medals as a second skin embedded in the performer’s beliefs, will make her think that is impossible to get rid of them. However, she will surprise herself when pealing the golden medals one by one from her body in an ongoing transformative process of self-release.
Director and choreographer: Claudia Hilda/ Performer and collaborator: Kelvis Reinoso/ Composer: Yasel Munoz/ Cinematographer: Adriano Toledo/ Duration: 10min
Syllable
Ambitious and experimental, Syllable is inspired by a short chapter from within Primo Levi’s 1975 collection of short stories The Periodic Table. The extraordinary tale is told by seven principal characters supported by sinfonietta-scale ensemble, auxiliary audio, and visual projection. This is a cross-arts collaborative project between student artists and a professional team of industry creatives.
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 that are choreographed in an intimate, beautiful, and condensed way. This piece merges daily pedestrian gestures that are part of the cuban body language with minimal art. It approaches and experiments between the boundaries of the minimal dance and the baroque cuban style embedded within the performer’s body.
Choreographer and performer: Claudia Hilda/ Musician: Lili Chacón
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
Since 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 allow her to expand her artistic boundaries and explore her art practice both practically and theoretically. She approached dance and choreography also as an intellectual exercise that opened creative doors while writing, dancing and directing.
Steps out of the Blue
“…a young woman fights within herself to discover who she really is in the middle of a different society and, she realizes something that will change her forever.”
This experimental short film embraces a large set of imaginaries, traditions, feelings and beliefs that reflects on a process of inner-personal growth in defiance of the pressure imposed by society. It is a journey in search of freedom, identity and liberation.
It premiered as part of the official selection of the Cannes Short Film Festival in 2019/ Director, Editor: Hector David Rosales/ Starring: Claudia Hilda Rodriguez Pozo
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 was a conceptual-creative space in which questioning the technologies of normalization, objectification, and institutionalization through which the female body has been constructed.
Following the imagination of the trilogies, the number three became obsessively recurrent in the piece. She worked with Batá drums, sacred instruments used in the toques of the Regla de Ocha that are always played together, as a family of three. There were three stages of evolution during the performance and musical piece; the counts and phrases of three, six, and nine beats; the triangular scenography; the three dancers and the nine musicians…….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
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. Just like human nature that has created different levels of structures (family, communities, societies, countries) that bring about a connection, a bond, and close interaction with others. This piece explores the definition of quarks, to bring about a dialogue on social connection yet isolation, intimacy yet aloofness, and the reinvention of real and imaginary spaces.
The two dancers present a singular yet collective force, interacting with one another. They establish an inseparable relationship of cohesion and critical coexistence over their current spaces and conditions, reinventing and rethinking the 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.
