Adam Castañeda
Adam Castan͂eda is a dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator based in Houston, Texas. He is a four-time recipient of the Houston Arts Alliance’s Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant for works including Lazarus in the Promised Land (2021), Migration (2023), and The Women of Northside (2024). His choreography credits for theater include Afsaneh Aayani's Innominate (Catastrophic Theatre), Cleansed (Catastrophic Theatre), Last Stop on Market Street (Main Street Theater), and Rumplestiltskin (University of Houston). Adam was a company member for five seasons with Jennifer Wood’s Suchu Dance, and currently performs with the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble. Adam is a grateful recipient of a 2020 Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance to produce Lazarus in the Promised Land, a celebration of the Houston Mexican American community. Most recently, he was awarded a Let Creativity Happen Digital! Grant for “The Intimacy of Longitudes and Latitudes” and is currently one of six mentees in Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training.
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Adam’s current project among many is The Four of Us, a collaboration with international dancer/choreographers Domokos Kovacs (Budapest, Hungary), and Ana Paula Ornelas (Hermosillo, Mexico). The work began in August 2023, when Adam, Domokos and Ana Paula met at Art Omi in Upstate New York. A year later, they reconnected in Budapest, Hungary to process the previous year of transition, disappointment, and ennui. The result is The Four of Us. Click the button below to learn more.
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