BOCA TUYA announces its breakthrough fall season, led by artistic director and choreographer Omar Román de Jesús. The organization’s fall highlights feature an international touring engagement in Panama, the appointment of their first Executive Director and Company Manager, and BOCA TUYA’s first full-length, solo bill performance at the historic 92NY Harkness Dance Center at home in New York City. For more information visit bocatuya.com.

BOCA TUYA’s landmark fall 2024 season launched the final week of September with a sold-out triple bill performance at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. Román de Jesús’s seminal duet Like Those Playground Kids at Midnight shared the Kaatsbaan stage with the world-renowned Limón Dance Company and Music From the Sole. An ode to love, defiance, and individuality, Playground Kids champions self-expression and individual freedom, encouraging all to embrace their uniqueness and the boundaries that confine them.

Artistic Director Omar Román de Jesús is no stranger to the demands and excitement of building a life in dance in New York. Over the last two years alone, he has amassed recognition as a Princess Grace awardee in choreography, a Harkness Promise Award recipient, an inaugural Baryshnikov Arts Center Fellow at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, and a persistent voice advocating for the place of Queer, LatinX leaders in dance.

Omar Román de Jesús approaches the fall 2024 season with vigor:

“Since the growth in our leadership, we have the bandwidth to seek innovative collaboration for stage, film, and our other interdisciplinary projects. I’m grateful for the ongoing partnership with 92NY here in New York whose support and continued belief in our work and mission is critical for our development. We’ve begun our 92NY Harkness Dance Center residency for a long term engagement that will allow us to dive into new works and to refine the details of signature repertoire like Los Perros del Barrio Colosal. What a pleasure to return to 92NY for a performance of our own at the Buttenwieser Hall after choreographing & performing alongside Ailey II (work by Hope Boykin), The Martha Graham Company (work by Jamar Roberts), and The Limón Dance Company at the 92NY 150th anniversary celebration earlier this year.”