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José Navarrete
José Navarrete is a native of México City. He studied theater at the National Actors Association’s Institute Soler and dance at the National Institute of Fine Arts in México. Navarrete’s choreographic work has been presented by the Bay Area Dance Series, the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival, Summerfest, Theater Artaud, ODC Theater, and Dance Mission Theater. He has also received two nominations for the Isadora Duncan award in choreography and performance. In 2004, he was awarded a Bessie Schönberg Choreographers residency at The Yard and a Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellowship. He also has a B.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Choreography and Visual Art at Mills College.
‘The Revenge of Huitlacoche” is a solo work performed by José Navarrete that includes art installation, dance, theater, poetry, and political and social commentary in a raw cabaret style. It explores issues on a worldwide scale: migrations, natural disasters, war, the environment, and concepts of alienation and community, in a set of vignettes with decidedly Mexican images and iconography.
“The Revenge of Huitlacoche is a smartly conceived and emotionally affecting work of thought-provoking dance that showed Navarrete as a skilled and agile dancer/choreographer.” –Dance View Times