![]() ![]() Alayo was one of the first American companies to perform at the 2010 Festival del Caribe at Teatro Martí and partnered with Dance Brigade in July 2011 to perform in Havana’s Teatro Mella in Cuba. The Company has performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at venues such as Theater Artaud, ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater, Herbst Theater, Laney Theater, Sonoma Country Wine Theater, and La Peña Cultural Center, and have presented work in the Black Choreographer's Festival, The CubaCaribe Festival, and Intersection's Culture and Flow. Alayo Dance Company was featured in "Dance Across America," published in National Geographic Magazine (2006). Combining elements of both to produce Afro-Cuban contemporary dance allows the artist to tell a rich story from a broad palette of movement styles that is indicative of Cuban culture, but the combination of which is rarely seen in the Bay Area. In Cuba, at the National School of Arts, all dance students are taught modern and traditional styles of dance and music and the forms are not considered as disassociated as they are in the United States. ![]() It is far more diverse than most of the modern dance circuit. He eloquently articulates his aesthetic vision through a synthesis of these dance styles, citing from each traditions, movements, narratives and concepts indicative of Cuban culture. As director and choreographer, his work is an innovative fusion of Afro-Cuban modern, folkloric and popular Cuban dance. ![]() Ramon Ramos Alayo founded Alayo Dance Company in 2001 and is currently the resident company of CubaCaribe. She is an educator, a vocal alchemist and a voice for our time. in Music Education from New York University. in Psychology from Brown University and an M.A. As a composer, Branice moves brilliantly from Jazz to Gospel to Children’s Music (that resonates for the child in us all).īranice received her B.A. Her workshops are innovative and they ignite the childhood in children. Most recently, Branice garnered the honor of being nominated by the Bay Area Theatre Awards for Best Music Direction.Īs an educator, Branice has worked as a teaching artist weaving it into her life as a performing artist. McKenzie is an award-winning composer, has garnered a 14 year tenure as Vocal Faculty at the stellar Oakland School For The Arts and is the Founding Minister of Music Emerita at Heart and Soul Center of Light in Oakland, CA. She has graced the stages of The Newport Jazz Festival to the Umbria Jazz Festival, from Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow to the great Carnegie Hall in New York City. With her four-octave range, this artist has partnered with greats touring the world from Harry Belafonte to Gregory Hines, Hugh Masekela, Roberta Flack, Dianne Reeves and Iyanla Vanzant to name a few. The quote says: “Branice McKenzie sings with a sensitivity, intonation and eloquence that mark her as a fine proponent of Jazz in song” ~ He is also a member of The Recording Academy and a voting member of The Grammy Awards. Bryan’s talents have landed him alongside such artist as Al Green, Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the soundtrack for the movie “La Mission” with Benjamin Bratt, and recording and performing with Huey Lewis and The News to name a few. His musical experiences have him taken around the globe including several trips throughout Europe, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Jamaica and many legendary stages including Montreaux Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He also performs with The Funk Revival Orchestra, Rankin Scroo and Ginger, Juke Joint and the percussion and dance ensemble, Crosspulse. A veteran of some of the Bay Area’s top vocal groups including Street Sounds, SoVoSo, Slammin All Body Band, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, CHELLE! and Friends and Bobby McFerrin's-MOTION. Dyer is a multi-talented musician who not only sings but plays and teaches several instruments including bass guitar, percussion and piano writes and arranges music, conducts choirs and groups, and works in television, radio and film. ![]()
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