Repertoire
The Coat

Choreography: Faizah Grootens in collaboration with Diego Vázquez
Dancers: Faizah Grootens and Diego Vázquez
Music: Camerata Romeu and Alberto Iglesias
Light and Costume Design: Diego Vázquez
Running Time: 18 minutes
A coat as a metaphor of comfort, strength and support turns into a main character alongside the two dancers. A coat that becomes a person itself for all that it might represent. An object that is related to protection or a natural shield organically related to identity. But, what’s identity nowadays? The coat talks about all these matters, in addition to those that are undoubtedly relevant to us such as androgyny, longing to belong (to someone or something) and destiny. The intense platonic relation between the dancers exposes the need for safety and a place to hide in.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Qu-5XprL_eE
Manasseh and The Schizophrenia

Choreography, Set Design, Costume Design and Light Design: Diego Vázquez
Music: J. Brahms, F. Händel and Andrés Solis
Dancers: 7
Running Time: 45 min.
Manasseh and The Schizophrenia is a narrative choreography about memory, the reminiscence of traumatic events, the conflict to live after a trauma and the search for a way to overcome it.
Manasseh means "the one that makes me forget". This story of a soldier named Manasseh who has experienced the atrocity of a war and longs to find a way to forget the images that torment him. As occurs regularly after a traumatic event of this type, the brain may produce neurotransmitters in a way that diseases such as schizophrenia are developed. This is the case of the main character of this work.
The choreographer is interested in portraying that sometimes it is not necessary to suffer this disease or to possess a schizoid personality to experience the torment of living with different voices, opinions and internal judgments regarding an event, especially in a moment of crisis or deep sadness.
This choreography is divided into 6 scenes. Three are marked by the three movements of the Concerto in a minor for violin and cello, op. 102, "Double" by Brahms, two interludes created by Andrés Solís, and the aria "Serse: Aria Ombra Mai Fù", by Handel.
Scene 1: War.
Scene 2: Childhood.
Scene 3: In the Garden of Shadows.
Scene 4: Manasseh and the Schizophrenia.
Scene 5: The hospital
Scene 6: Like any person.
TEASER: https://youtu.be/r16IBlINDKM
FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/NIFPQ9fAnFQ
MORE INFO: http://diegovazquez.mx/node/417
Saudade

Choreography and intrepretation: Sarah Matry-Guerre and Jairo Cruz Gonzalez
Music: TONO production
Light Design:Diego Vázquez
Costumes: Luciana Corres and Irani Bustamante
Running time: 25 min.
2 dancers
Saudade is a duet that explores the longing for something so ambiguous that it is indefinable and the dissatisfaction with the unfulfilled desire for return.
FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/o-SNvNygaRY
MORE INFO: http://diegovazquez.mx/node/434
False Cognate

Choreography, Set Design, Costume Design and Light Design: Diego Vázquez
Music: Frédéric Chopin
Première: October 2014
Running Time: 22 min.
False Cognate is inspired by the relationship the choreographer has with the Bible and the confrontation he suffers through it. False Cognate is a personal journey that originates in the mind, and arises from confusions that might occur during an inner conversation. There are misinterpretations in meanings and significations, when one comes to believe concepts that are a lie, an illusion or an unresolved riddle. False Cognate is a term used to describe when two words in different languages are similar in form and pronunciation, but have different roots, hence different meanings.
TEASER: https://youtu.be/dQNB0tpsScw
FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1z-W67gdpXo
MORE INFO IN: http://diegovazquez.mx/node/378
Quizá esta vez...

Choreography, Set Design, Costume Design and Light Design: Diego Vázquez
Production: Laleget Danza & Compañía Nacional de Danza
Music: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Contrapunctus #14, J.S. Bach.
Première: June 16th, 2016
Dancer: Mayuko Nihei
Running Time: 10 min.
Maybe this time around it won't be like a sea wave,
that goes back and forward...
Maybe this time around I stay firm...
Maybe this time around my mood is affirmed...
Maybe this time around hope shall hold me...
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/6dGkCmEtV6A
MORE INFO IN: http://diegovazquez.mx/node/401
Pendiente

Choreography: Faizah Grootens and Diego Vázquez
Production: Teatro Luna Blou, Curaçao
Music: Raúl Maduro
Set Design and Costume Design: Laleget
Light Design: Gabriel Pascal and Diego Vázquez
Première: January 17, 2015
Dancers: Faizah Grootens and Diego ázquez
Running Time: 27 min
Pendiente is a contemporary dance duet inspired by images, atmospheres and situations of the famous novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”.
This is a non-narrative choreography, but addresses recurring themes in the novel such as a prohibited love, violence, revenge and disdain. García Marquez' work, an essential part of Latin American cultural identity, serves as a meeting point for the three creators of this piece. It is an encounter of two different nationalities but with shared roots: Raúl Maduro, sound artist from Curaçao, Diego Vázquez, Mexican dancer and choreographer and Faizah Grootens, dancer and choreographer from Curaçao.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/OrSBFueDC3s
MORE INFO IN: http://diegovazquez.mx/node/398
Petrushka

Choreography: Diego Vázquez
Set Design: Oliver Layseca
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Light Design: Gabriel Torres
Costume Design: Diego Vázquez and Oliver Layseca
Premier: Laleget Danza and Ballet Morelos, 2011
50 min.
Les noces

Choreography: Diego Vázquez*
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Dancer: Beatriz Madrid
Light Design: Gabriel Pascal**
Set: Gabriel Pascal** y Diego Vázquez*
Costume Design: Diego Vázquez* y Beatriz Madrid
Prèmiere: April 2013
35 min.
Clean Slate

Choreography, Set & Costume Design: Diego Vázquez
Music: Arvo Pärt
Light Design: Gabriel Torres & Diego Vázquez
Première: Ballet Morelos, 2009
10min.
7 dancers
Mariachi Tempo

Concept, Choreography and costume Design: Diego Vázquez
Music: El Cascabel, El son de la negra, La culebra y Mundo raro (José Alfredo Jiménez)
Light Design: Carlos Arce
Premier: Ballet de Morelos. México. 2010
13 min.
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Choreography, Set & Costume Design: Diego Vázquez
Original Score: Rogelio Sosa
Light Design: Gabriel Pascal
Première: Laleget Danza, 2010
35 min.
5 dancers
Mengua, mengua

"Mengua, mengua: and the Light shineth in darkness"
Choreography Costume Design: Diego Vázquez
Music: Marcela Rodríguez, Funesta: Soneto 164 and Afuera
Set & Light Design: Gabriel Torres Vargas
Dancer: Carolina Ureta
Soprano: Catalina Rodríguez or Verónica Murúa
Production: Mengua Inc. and Laleget Danza
Première: Ballet Morelos, 2013
10min.
The World in my Eyes (Asídechido)

Choreography and Costume Design: Diego Vázquez
Music: The Cure and Depeche Mode
Set and Light Design: Gabirel Torres
Premiére: October 2013
35min.
8 dancers