“a playful and often passionate study in human connection and control, featuring vibrant colors and a seemingly endless supply of Post-it notes.”

- NASHVILLE SCENE

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First Fruit was the culmination of Rosie Herrera’s creative residency with New Dialect, which took place January 13 - February 6, 2020.

The explosively colorful work was built upon Rosie’s five years of research into, as she says on her website, “the relationship between religious iconography and romance.

Choreographed in 2020 and set to the music of Juan Gabriel, Buika, Frank Sinatra and more, First Fruit explores the indelible ways that we are shaped by all we have loved and lost and how fiercely we hold onto what we believe.”

First Fruit was created as a culmination of research begun at New Dialect's Winter Intensive, where Rosie lead a week long dance theater workshop entitled “Brutal Elegance.”

While in Nashville she also Taught a master class at Centennial Performing Arts Studios and led a dance theater workshop for children at the Hispanic Family Foundation’s Baila Dance Studio.

First Fruit premiered at OZ Arts Nashville in a double bill alongside Banning Bouldin’s The Triangle on February 20-23, 2020.

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On February  3, 2020, Rosie taught a free-to-the-public master class at Centennial Performing Arts Studios. The class was presented in partnership with OZ Arts Nashville, New Dialect, and Metro Parks Dance Division, and including a workshop, a world-premiere preview of a new work, and a Q&A session with Rosie Herrera and New Dialect's Banning Bouldin.

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On February 1, 2020, Rosie led a theater workshop for the children of Baila Dance Studio. The workshop was presented in partnership with Hispanic Family Foundation, New Dialect and OZ Arts Nashville. Following the workshop the children and families and friends were invited to join us for a special dress rehearsal of Rosie’s First Fruit at OZ on February 19, which included a Q&A sessions with the artists.

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Special thanks to New Dialect’s Winter Intensive 2020 participants, the children of Hispanic Family Foundation’s Baila youth dance program, and the Nashville dance community for playing such an enthusiastic and vital role in the creation of this work. 

photographs + imaging for First Fruit
ANDREA BEHRENDS

performance stills by
TIFFANY BESSIRE