Danza Orgánica Danza Orgánica

  • About Danza Orgánica
  • DONATE
  • mar parrilla
  • Calendar
  • Support Borikén
  • âs nupumukâunean (We Still Dance)
  • Ohke Kah Nippi Mehquontamūonk
  • Powering Cultural Futures Partnership
  • Dance for Social Justice
  • We Create Festival
  • Proyecto Melaza
  • Ongoing Projects
  • antiracist justice
  • Community Relationships
  • Opportunities with Danza Orgánica
  • Contact Us
  • DO Core Values
  • The Company
  • Resident Artists
  • Decolonizing Praxis
  • Media and Awards
  • Repertorio
  • Advisory Board
  • Sponsors, Partners, and Contributors
  • Solo Work
  • DSJ in our community!
  • 2020 Artist Cohort
  • 2019 Artist Cohort
  • 2018 Artist Cohort
  • 2017 Artist Cohort
  • 2016 Artist Cohort
  • 2015 Artist Cohort
  • 2014 Artist Cohort
  • Application FAQ
  • Indigeneity
  • Collaboration with Puerto Rico
  • Puerto Rico Cohort
  • Hurricane Maria Recovery Initiative
  • healing justice resources
  • Community Relationships
  • Running in Stillness
  • Vessel
  • About Danza Orgánica
    • DO Core Values
    • The Company
    • Resident Artists
    • Decolonizing Praxis
    • Media and Awards
    • Repertorio
    • Advisory Board
    • Sponsors, Partners, and Contributors
  • DONATE
  • mar parrilla
    • Solo Work
  • Calendar
  • Support Borikén
  • âs nupumukâunean (We Still Dance)
  • Ohke Kah Nippi Mehquontamūonk
  • Powering Cultural Futures Partnership
  • Dance for Social Justice
    • DSJ in our community!
  • We Create Festival
    • 2020 Artist Cohort
    • 2019 Artist Cohort
    • 2018 Artist Cohort
    • 2017 Artist Cohort
    • 2016 Artist Cohort
    • 2015 Artist Cohort
    • 2014 Artist Cohort
    • Application FAQ
  • Proyecto Melaza
  • Ongoing Projects
    • Indigeneity
    • Collaboration with Puerto Rico
    • Puerto Rico Cohort
    • Hurricane Maria Recovery Initiative
  • antiracist justice
    • healing justice resources
  • Community Relationships
    • Community Relationships
    • Running in Stillness
    • Vessel
  • Opportunities with Danza Orgánica
  • Contact Us
¿ quiénes somos?









Mar Parrilla 

Founding Artistic Director- Lead Choreographer

Producer- Educator

Taíno Afroborikua artist Mar Parrilla was birthed by Mother Earth in the Caribbean, Borikén (so called Puerto Rico). She is the Founding Artistic Director, and lead Choreographer of Danza Orgánica. Mar holds a Bachelor's Degree in Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Master's Degree in Dance Education from New York University. Since 2014, Parrilla has produced the annual festival: We Create!-  devoted to promoting the work of BIPOC self-identified mujeres, and gender non-conforming artists. Mar is also an educator, and founder of the Dance for Social Justice™ program. She has served in public schools, colleges and universities in the United States since 1998. Besides Danza Orgánica she devotes her life to her spirituality, her solo artist practice, her family, and community organizing.   

detailed biography


 

Fran de Paula

Rehearsal Director
Company Member

Born in Andalusia, Spain, Fran started his dance studies in ballet and flamenco when he was 5 years old. De Paula has performed at the musical “El Diluvio Que Viene”, and operas such as “La Partenope”, “Un Ballo In Maschera” and “La Gioconda. He danced in “Lope” the movie, “Noche Sensacional” and “Verano Noche”. In Boston, he performed at Boston Dance Company’s Nutcracker, and worked as a ballroom dancing dance instructor and competitor with Arthur Murray. Fran has been a member of Danza Orgánica since 2010.





 Dey Hernández

Company Member

Dey is an architect, interdisciplinary artist, performance artist, and educator. She designs and directs workshops with AgitArte, a non-profit organization dedicated to artistic and popular education projects in marginalized communities. Dey is also a puppeteer of the Puerto Rico-based radical workers’ theater collective, Papel Machete. Her work and performances most recently have been exhibited at the Mills Gallery of the Boston Center for the Arts, and Loisaida Center in New York City. She is currently the art director and curator of When We Fight, We Win!






Claudia E. Varela 

Company Member

Claudia was born and raised in Reynosa, Mexico, where she danced with Academia de Danza La Scala and Casa de la Cultura de Reynosa. She graduated Cum Laude from UC San Diego with a Dance B.A. and a Bioengineering B.S. Varela believes that dance is a powerful way to protest and advocate for social justice, and in her choreographic work, she has explored issues such as, the drug violence affecting her hometown and the disappearing of 43 students in Ayotzinapa. Currently, Claudia is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and is thrilled to have the opportunity to dance with Danza Orgánica. 










Al Rosa

Company Member

Alejandra ‘Al’ Rosa (they/them, she/her) is a non binary Afro-queer Puerto Rican poet, movement, theater and performance artist based in Boston. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, their movement is grounded in a collective Afro-Boricuir quest for liberation. Currently an Afro-Caribbean

Performance Studies PhD student at Harvard University, she deepens their artistic practice under the mentorship of radical choreographer, performer, filmmaker, Laura Rodriguez, LROD. After writing front-page stories for The New York Times, Bori-trans narratives for Time Magazine, producing for Vice News, HBO, and receiving Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Journalism Fellowship for two consecutive years, Ale moved to the Boston area in 2021, where she joined Danza Orgánica as a dance company member, while continuing committed to their Puerto Rico-based solo performer practice -La cicatriz del agua, éxodx, Vísteme despacio- influenced by the work of Puerto Rican queer performers and theater artists André Pó Rodil, Awilda Rodriguez Lora laperformera, and Kairiana Núñez Santaliz. Community member of Casa étnica, afro-feminist anti-racist storytelling project founded and leaded by maestra Gloriann Sacha Antonetty. Held by her ancestry, su ancestralia, and informed by poly-affective creative tissues, Ale dives into movement, poetry, theater and performance art. Their first poetry book, Levadura (La Secta de los Perros, 2022), will soon tour Puerto Rico, Boston and New York, en memoria de doña Sarah.








Marcel Santiago Marcelino

Company Member


Marcel Santiago Marcelino is a Domini-Rican dance artist born in Boston, MA. Marcel lived part of his childhood in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico before returning to the states. His creative practice is influenced by Caribbean, contemporary and improvisational dance methods. He is a Director’s Scholarship recipient and 2021 BFA graduate of the University of the Arts School of Dance, Dir. Donna Faye Burchfield. Marcel had the pleasure of spending part of a semester studying classical and contemporary dance at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza "María de Ávila" in Madrid, Spain. During his time at UArts, he collaborated and performed in work by Lauren Bakst at the Camping Dance Festival in Paris and Lyon, France. He has also had the pleasure of performing works by Sidra Bell, Katie Swords-Thurman, and Juel Lane amongst others. In 2021 Marcel joined Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (Philly) and danced with the company as an apprentice for one season. In 2022, he returned to Boston and joined Urbanity Dance as a company dancer and faculty member. This year also marks Marcel’s first season with Danza Orgánica. 



 
 
company collaborators




Andrea Muñiz 

From San Juan, Puerto Rico, Andrea is a Boston based movement artist. Andrea is committed to the craft of channeling movement in collaborative environments. Their choreographic work lives on the edges of the physical and the imagined. In 2019, they graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance. They have performed with El Taller Juvenil de Andanza, The Robin Aren Company, and Boston Dance Theater. Andrea is currently an artist with Danza Orgánica. You can follow them on Instagram (@drea.muniz) to see more.



Victoria Sagardía

Puerto Rican artist, Victoria Sagardía accomplished a Bachelor of Arts at Emerson College. She is ballet trained, and also trained with CoDa 21 in Puerto Rico. Victoria is thrilled to be dancing with Danza Orgánica.






Etienne Hernández

Etienne is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he began his training at La escuela Julian Blanco and Ballet Concierto. He graduated from the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, with a Masters in choreography & performing arts. Hernandez performed throughout Spain with El Joven Ballet de Cámara de Madrid for 5 years. He was also a member of Ballet Brio in P.R, and has presented dance works internationally. Presently he teaches in Boston and around the north shore area and is delighted to be a member of Danza Orgánica.







TECHNICAL TEAM


Lighting Designers: 
Stephen Petrilli
Harrison Burke

Sound Engineer: 
Wendyam Emerson
 
 

do alumni:

Joya Powell

Sahar Javedani

Alicia Woo

Angela Dixon

Doreen Kramer

Jeca Rodríguez

Nicole Hirsch

Maria Molteni

Marissa Molinar

Tara Weaver

Kara Fili

Wayne Ong

Joe Gonzalez

Sakurako Awano 

Gabriela Silva

Terina Jasmin- Alladin

Juanita Pearl

Ashley Freeman

Ashly Jensen

Sarah Elaz

Chienhwe

Mckersin Previlus

Amy M. Burns

Earnest Gildon