Join us for Chef Allen’s Farm-to-Table Dinner
ART BASEL EDITION: DANCE!
featuring
Lazaro Godoy & Coki Sarria
an original dance and live music piece
Tuesday, December 3, 6:30pm
The Café at Books & Books in Coral Gables
Art is in the air this December as Art Basel comes to town. Chef Allen’s nod to Basel this December is a Farm-to-Table Dinner wherein he’s tapped Lazaro Godoy, of GoPra Dance Performance Company to create an original dance and live music piece that will highlight the connection between food and movement. This will be a live dance and music performance to be presented in 3 movements along with the 3 courses of the dinner.
The performance is titled Rum (Va) Con Tem Po and features two male performers native of Cuba connecting through a live performance of Afro-Cuban beats by Franco-Cuban musician Coki Sarria in conversation with the passionately playful contemporary childlike movements inspired by the Afro-Cuban diety Elegua. Elegua has the spiritual capability to open and close pathways and his power stem from his ability to make everything feel like a playground of surprises, laughter, wit and entertainment.
Join us for a very special edition of Chef Allen’s local, plant-based dinners partnering this time with a local dance company!
Lazaro Godoy studied at the National Arts School (ENA) in Cuba, graduated from New World School of the Arts, Miami (1996), and the Juilliard School, NYC (2000). Godoy received (NFAA)/YoungArts first place for the performance of his solo choreography (1996). Along his career as a dance performer, Godoy has performed in works by Hans van Manen, Nils Christie, Jiri Kylian, David Parsons, Stijn Celis, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company among others.
Coki Sarria Linares is a self-made percussionist mastering the batas drums like the congas, the rhythms of Cuban folklore, “sound” and jazz. From Cuba, at eight years old, he became familiar with the traditional drums and Tumbadoras. His talent was rewarded with a First Level of Percussion in folklore. In 1988, Coki moved to La Havana and joined the renowned band “Clave y Guaguancó” awarded with a Grammy Award for La rumba soy yo.