Cleo Parker Robinson Dance to present the opening of their photo exhibit and premiere of Carmen.
Yeah, thank you, Councilman Cashman. Looks like we have no other announcements, but we do have one presentation this evening. Tonight we have a presentation from Clear Parker Robinson Dance to highlight the opening of their photo exhibit, the premiere of Carmen. Many of us know her as Mama Cleo on the northeast side of Denver. So you want to come up to the. First of all, thank you so much for having a moment. And I just want to thank our wonderful Councilwoman Ortega and, of course, our our chair, who is in our district. And we're so proud. Now, I have an extraordinary weekend, but we have our ambassador of Mexico right with us. And I wanted our Ambassador Rendon to please come and join me because it is rare that we get her with this wonderful exhibit that we will be sharing at first at our theater starting on Friday night, Friday night. It begins the exhibit. And this is an extraordinary exhibit of Amalia Hernandez and her daughter is carrying on that legacy of the national dance company Folklorico de Mexico. And it is really 100 years that we're celebrating and not 100 years of Cleopatra Robinson dance. I've only been doing it for 47 years, but I've been in a building that's almost 100 years. But I would like for you to say a few words, if you would. Thank you very much. And good afternoon, everyone. Thank you, city councilors, for receiving us here this year. The consulate of. Mexico is celebrating the 125th anniversary that it was first established in Denver by precedent for future years. And we are having some activities along the year. First of all, we are going to start this weekend with a picture for the exhibition of Amalia Mendez, the founder of the ballet Folklorico de México. And she has set the example for all the girls all over the world. So we thank you for hosting this announcement and we need to tell you about it. Thank you. Thank you. With our opening. We have three premieres and they happen in Denver first and then they will travel the country and the world. And that is what we love doing, is sharing the magic of the powerful artists that we have. So our first work is at La Malattia of Cordoba, and I think it's really amazing. A historical work that we will be sharing starting Friday night will play Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So we want to invite the council to be there. We then have another work by Donal McHale, and Donal McHale is one of our American choreographers and he just made his transition one month ago. But he left a legacy of work that Broadway, New York, everywhere around the world knows his name as a choreographer. So we carry his work as a lead, a legacy work. And then my last work is Carmen and I will be performing Carmen. I choreographed it with a bossa nova approach. I did it with the symphony in 1989 or somewhere along there at Bettcher, and we opened it there, but we're doing it at our theater, bringing a sense of jazz, celebrating jazz in this country. And so we want you to join us. One of the things we realized and I wanted to thank Janelle Ayanna for making this connection between our companies in Denver and in Mexico City. She has just done a phenomenal job and of course, our staff, but has said has made material available for you. So let us know if you can join us, because it is a historic moment and we thank you for this time. I say. I say. I say. Thank you so much. Madam Ambassador, you are welcome here any time. Thank you so much. And of course, Mama. Cleo, we hope next time you can perform. Because, you know, once, once a month we have a performance for our Vision 2020 Plan for the Arts. So. Thank you. Okay, great. All right, we have. That was our presentation. Madam Secretary, you have any communications?