The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The internationally acclaimed Ballet Folklorico de la Universidad de Guadalajara kicks off its summer season at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara on Sunday, June 23. Shows are held every Sunday at 10 a.m. through September 29 (except September 1 and 8).
Cirque du Soleil returns to Guadalajara in August with Varekai, a touring production that is described as an “acrobatic tribute to the nomadic soul.”
Still without a musical director, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) kicks off its second (summer) season of the year next weekend with a program featuring the works of two Spanish composers.
An exhibition commemorating 25 years since the death of Mexican artist Fernando Garcia Ponce opens at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas on Friday, May 31.
Mexico is seeking to reform its federal child labor provisions to raise the minimum working age from 14 to 15.
Musicians in the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) are excitedly practicing a piece by a Guadalajara-born composer, which is slated for Friday, May 24, in the Teatro Degollado as part of the Festival Cultural de Mayo. That performance of “El Laberinto de la Soledad,” named after the well-known book by Octavio Paz, will mark its debut in Mexico.
“It’s challenging and beautiful,” commented one instrumentalist, “and it really sounds like Guadalajara.”
The state-funded Compañía de Danza Clásica y Neoclásica de Jalisco has been given a stay of execution but the troupe will change its name to the Joven Ballet de Jalisco (Young Ballet of Jalisco).