A L A R I E T E

 

 

 

Marlet is an emerging choreographer from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and Co-director of “Alariete, Compañía de Artes Vivas” with Victor Figueroa Infante. Marlet began dancing as a child and devoted herself to professional dance at age 16, at the University of Guadalajara. There, she served as a student for two years and a company member of CorpoDanza, in her third year at UDG. In 2010, she joined CETI, a performance ensemble where she learned aerial acrobatics, ballet and contemporary dance techniques. Nevertheless she was not convinced of the level offered by the University of Guadalajara in the Bachelor of Dance and decides to enroll in the Bachelor of Hispanic Letters while dancing in various projects and private and special events.

Marlet also studied pre-Hispanic dances in Quintana Roo with the Xipe Totec Group and under her mentor, Olivia Diaz Cervantes who teaches Graham, Limon and Nikolais dance techniques to date. She has participated in various festivals, workshops and social work performances in different states of México.

In 2013 she cofounded A L A R I E T E, presenting as premiere "If not hear you die"work in situ performed in the tannery zone of Guadalajara, México. She recently created an interdisciplinary piece with Alariete titled Metadonna, presenting it at Puerto Vallarta and at the 2014 Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers !FLACC! under the direction of Liz Boubion of the Piñata Dance Collective in Oakland, California. Currently she and her company is touring the U.S. with the MobileInTent project under the direction of Ann Schanke.

 

 

 

 

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