MALPASO DANCE: Preview performance at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center

HUNTER – January 28, 2026 – Catskill Mountain Foundation, in partnership with The Joyce Theater Foundation, presents Malpaso Dance at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville on Saturday, February 7th at 7:00 PM.

Since its establishment in 2012, Malpaso Dance Company has become one of the most sought-after Cuban dance companies with a growing international profile. Emphasizing a collaborative creative process, Malpaso is committed to working with top international choreographers while also nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography. An Associate Company of Joyce Theater Productions, 

Malpaso — together with The Joyce— has commissioned original works from a number of prominent international choreographers, including Ron K. Brown, Aszure Barton, Emmy-award winning Sonya Tayeh, Robyn Mineko Williams and celebrated b-girl Asherie. As a means of foregrounding Cuban choreographers, Malpaso recently has also premiered works by company member Daile Carrazana, bolstering the list of long-toured pieces by Artistic Director Osnel Delgado, which are often accompanied live by Grammy award-winning, Cuban-American composer/pianist Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble. In 2026, Malpaso will premiere a new work by emerging Thai-American choreographer Keerati Jinakunwiphat and will become the first Cuban dance company to perform a work by Martha Graham. 

Malpaso Dance’s preview performances of Keerati’s new work and Carrazana’s La Estación are only on Saturday, February 7 at 7:00PM at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. Arrive early to find available parking in the municipal or other parking lots. For tickets, visit https://our.show/malpaso-dance , email boxoffice@catskillmtn.org or call 518 263 2063. 

About Catskill Mountain Foundation

The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998, CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop. The Catskill Mountain Foundation operates the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, and the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, NY.

Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over $58 million. Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Legislature, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruderhof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. CMF believes that the arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.