Ballet Hispánico New York – the nation’s largest Latino dance organization – brought dance into the galleries of The Museum of Modern Art during A Celebration of Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream on Thursday, March 19, 2026. The program also included performances by Aruán Ortiz and Yaissa Jimenez.

Eduardo Vilaro was invited by MoMA to create original dance works inspired by Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, the landmark retrospective honoring one of the 20th century’s most visionary Cuban modernists. On this special evening, Ballet Hispánico dancers premiered custom choreography, developed in dialogue with Lam’s radical visual language, which the artist described as an “act of decolonization,” rooted in Afro-Caribbean histories and charged with poetic imagination. Presented within the galleries of MoMA, these works animated Lam’s transforming figures and landscapes through movement, offering a living response to his expansive artistic vision.

Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream is organized by Christophe Cherix, The David Rockefeller Director, and Beverly Adams, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, with Damasia Lacroze, Curatorial Associate, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and Eva Caston, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA.