i didn't come to stay (2022)

Photo by Titus Ogilvie-Laing

​Choreography by Leonardo Sandoval, with improvisation by the dancers
Original music by Gregory Richardson, with Leonardo Sandoval, José Cruzata, Jennifer Vincent & Noé Kains
Lighting design by Kathy Kaufmann
Costume design by Dede Ayite
Cast 8 dancers, 5-piece band
Duration 57-60 minutes

Premiere April 12, 2021 at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Dancers: Naomi Funaki, Orlando Hernández, Roxy King, Gerson Lanza, Leonardo Sandoval, Lucas Santana, Gisele Silva, Ana Tomioshi,
Band: Gregory Richardson, José Carlos Cruzata Revé, Josh Davis, Noé Kains, Jennifer Vincent


I Didn’t Come to Stay is a commission from Works & Process at the Guggenheim and was created with the support of a summer 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, as well as residency support in March 2021 from The Yard, an April 2021 Pillow Lab residency at Jacob’s Pillow, a February 2022 Creative residency at Chelsea Factory, and a March 2022 Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation. Additional rehearsal support was provided by the American Tap Dance Foundation.

I Didn’t Come to Stay was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project is funded, in part, through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. The piece’s creation was also supported by a 2022 grant from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, and a 2022 APAP ArtsForward grant. Music From The Sole is supported by Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and by the New York State Council on the Arts.

partido (2019/2021)

Photo by Sally Cohn

Choreography by Leonardo Sandoval, with improvisation by the dancers
Original music by Gregory Richardson, Leonardo Sandoval, José Cruzata & Noé Kains
Lighting design by Kathy Kaufmann
Cast 6 dancers, 4 musicians
Duration 55-60 minutes

Premiere November 12, 2021 at Harlem Stage, New York, NY, co-presented by City College Center for the Arts/ CUNY Dance Initiative
Dancers: Naomi Funaki, Orlando Hernández, Leonardo Sandoval, Lucas Santana, Gisele Silva, Ana Tomioshi,
Band: Gregory Richardson, José Carlos Cruzata Revé, Josh Davis, Noé Kains

The ceation of Partido was supported by The Yard, where it was presented as a work in progress in 2019, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, CUNY Dance Initiative, City College Center for the Arts, the artist-in-residence program at the American Tap Dance Foundation and the Artists in Residence Exchange (AiRE) program at the Center for Flamenco Arts. Music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation.