Sabiduria (2017)
Sabiduria premiered at Dixon Place’s NYC DANCE10, and has performed at MERGE 2.0 at the Center for Performance Research, and Streamers at Situations Gallery.
DZ's solo project, exploring the dynamic relationship between suppression & freedom as it intersects with her identity as a Peruvian-Brazilian-American daughter of immigrants. DZ moves through dance, speech, and song in her moving attempt to be understood.
hollow not empty (2018)
grabbing fresh air (2015)
a solo created for Shannon Healey, where DZ explores grasping at impossible tasks, and arriving at exhaustion. Asking: what it might look like to grab fresh air? Can we grab at rest with force?
DON’T DATE ME (2014)
The Crux of the Matter (2014)
The re-building of a broken world, shaken up and staged, for an audience to see. DZ with dancers Shannon Healey & Amanda Stambrosky.
This insightful piece gained recognition at the American College Dance Association, given Gala honors, and at University of Florida being awarded the College of the Arts Creative Research Award & School of Theater & Dance Direction Award.
Bubble Dance (2014)
Created with Shannon Healey as a guerrila performane for Bates Dance Festival, Bubble Dance explored personal bubbles, walls, and how our personlity changes based on proximity. The piece toured Florida in 2015, including performances at Primitive Studios, and residencies with Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company & The New School. This work was highly complimented by the Sarasota Herald as "instructive example of how what we see and how we interpret can be dictated by our own perspectives and predilections."
NOW (2014) עכשיו
Created for the Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance in Isreal, DZ explores the coalescence of identity in community, featuring original composition by DZ & live performane by cellist Natalie Martin, with dancers Kat Hernandez, Krista Zozulia, and Charlotte Twitchell
Okay…and then (2013)
Created for dancer Mara Eagen, inspired by Minnesota winters and task.
The Critical Assessment (2012)
Where DZ explores the nature of warning signals, with dancers Ross Mogerly, Lindsey Palmquist, and Sara Nelson.
hollow not empty was commissioned by Agora Dance, Washington D.C based contemporary ballet company. Set on Jaya Bond it premiered at The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts April 2018 for Agora Dance’s 3MINMAX. This work had also been shown at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building for their By the People Festival.
this marked the first collaboration between DZ & poet Erika Oakvik, whose poem inspired the choreography, “a battle-time sacrifice justified for the Bigger War”
a play written and conceived by DZ Maciel, directed by Megan Wicks, and produced by Florida Players for their New Works Festival at Squitieri Studio Theater.
CAST:
Leann- Mia Jeanne-Frattino
Brooke- Hope Golds
TBD— Ariel Reich
Bo- Chris Kozack
Male Figure- Paul Poppe
Stage Manager: Carrie Bigley
Scenic Design: Sara Price
Media Design: Christian Allison
