"A dancer of infinite grace and presence…"
The Los Angeles Times
Dulce Capadocia was born in the seaside village of San Jose, Antique but raised in urban L.A.'s Historic Filipinotown. Initially trained in a dance home by her mother to perform in major venues as a young child, she holds degrees in dance from Loyola Marymount University and Temple University (where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on Choreography and Performance). Inquisitive by nature, she has traveled around the globe to conduct field work on indigenous Philippine cultures staying in the villages of the Ati and Igorot tribes. A maverick in the forefront of redefining Philippine Dance in her U.S. home, she was a finalist for the coveted James Irvine Foundation's Dancemaker fellowship and has garnered individual artist grants from Counterpulse Performing Diaspora, the Durfee Foundation, the Brody Arts Fund Award from the California Community Foundation and the prestigious COLA award from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (given annually to five of the city's most exemplary mid-career performing artists) for translating native folklore into acclaimed contemporary dance theatre. For Silayan Dance Company, she has written and received many multiple organizational grant awards from local and state commissioners for creative excellence in the dance field.
Serving as the former assistant of the late arts luminary C. Bernard Jackson of the Inner City Cultural Center, her practice and his influence have been a living meditation on how to serve communities through the transformative power of the arts; using its gifts of imagination and creative expression, how can the arts become a meaningful language in our lives and serve as impactful tools of investigation, conversation, inspiration, empowerment and identity in our society?
Dulce Capadocia’s work over decades has been experienced in different spaces including well-known theatres, schools, universities, community centers, street events, prisons, experimental and unconventional venues, provincial villages abroad, and in local, national and international dance festivals. In her Los Angeles home, she has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, John Anson Ford Theatre, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Japan America Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Hollywood Palladium, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ivar Theatre, Scottish Rite Auditorium, Keck Theatre, Highways Performance Space, California Plaza, LACE, among others.
Her interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary creations include collaborations with individual artists and groups in music, traditional arts, visual arts, theatre, costume design and set design. Partnerships include the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as Emmy award-winning teams in sound design and film; these designers include Darleen Stoker, Adrian Ravarour, Kate Johnson, Michael Mascucci, Linda Burroughs, Teresa Shea & Alicia Estrada. Her partnerships with well-known Filipino and Filipino-American artists include pop diva Kuh Ledesma, dance ethnologist and Philippines’ National Artist Ramon Obusan, National Endowment for the Arts’ Heritage Award winner and kulintang gong master Danongan Kalanduyan, and visual artists Faustino Caigoy, Chris Sicat, Reuben Domingo and Papo de Asis. She is featured in articles, books and exhibits. Dulce is also a writer.
A veteran of numerous festivals including Dance Kaleidoscope, Feet Speak, Manhattan Beach Festival and L.A. Women's Theatre Festival, her performances and creative work have received favorable reviews from mainstream dance critics. A community activist, she has served as a grants panelist for the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the California Community Foundation, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles.
She is one of several personalities featured in "I am Today's Filipino", a traveling photography / multimedia exhibit (commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute and produced by Tagline Communications & Madskill Productions). It preserves a moment in the current history of Filipinos in America and encourages a greater awareness of the many contributions that Filipinos have made and continue to make to the United States.
 Featured COLA (City of Los Angeles) awardee in COLA 20 Exhibition and Book produced by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department honoring its 20 year COLA history and its exemplary artists regarded as L.A.'s cultural and civic treasures. |
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| With actor & co-presenter, Danny Glover | With actress & co-presenter Hattie Winston | ||
| With Silayan Dance Company's Production Staff Art Agatep & Claire Soldevilla |
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| More photos on flickr: here | |||
Background Image Photographer: Rico Mejia
Dancers: Roger Fojas and Dulce Capadocia
Copyright © 2008 Dulce Capadocia. All rights reserved.