2024 - 2025 Season Performances!
Inside the Rainbow/Dentro el arcoiris (Local Theatre Festival - Theatre for Young Audiences feature!)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
August 24, 2024
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/festivals-series/local-theatre-festival/
Frida Libre
GALA Hispanic Theatre, October 2024
https://www.galatheatre.org/post/frida-libre-1?lang=es
Laughs in Spanish by Alexis Scheer
1st Stage, December 2024
https://1ststage.org/season-24-25
Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias
NextStop Theatre, January 2025
https://www.nextstoptheatre.org/24-25-season
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YOGA INSTRUCTION:
Breathe, Body, Mind - Thursday and Friday Early Bird Yoga Flow @ 6am
Yoga in Del Ray - Thursday Slow Power Flow @ 7:30pm
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2023-24 Productions in Review
Walter Mercado presents: a queer Puerto Rican (not just) Christmxs Carol
by Jayne Deely
directed by Elena Velasco
Avant Bard Theatre @ Mason Exhibitions Arlington, 3601 Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA
https://avantbard.org/
Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus
Co-directed by KenYatta Rogers and Elena Velasco; movement and intimacy direction by Elena Velasco
Clarice Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
March 2024
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2024/men-on-boats
One Last Song by Edwin Fontanez (Local Theatre residency)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts @ REACH
March 2024
Ride the Cyclone by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Dionne Warwick Theatre
Bowie State University
April 2024
www.bowiestate.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/fine-and-performing-arts/bsutheatre/current-season.php
Picasso por Cornelia Cody; dirigida y coreografiada por Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic
Octubre 2023
https://www.galatheatre.org/post/picasso
BUY BLACK! We don't sell to your kind here
Bowie State University Theatre
November 2023
Arco Iris - Theatre for the Very Young
Conceived, choreographed and directed by Elena Velasco
Nominated for Helen Hayes/Charles MacArthur New Play award
Arts on the Horizon, Alexandria, VA
June 9 - July 1, 2023
https://www.artsonthehorizon.org/2022-23-season.html
In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes y Lin-Manuel Miranda
Directed by Elena Velasco, choreographed by Stefan Sittig
Nominated for Helen Hayes awards, including Best Director and Best Musical
NextStop Theatre, Herndon, VA
May-June 2023
www.nextstoptheatre.org/intheheights
"NextStop Theatre’s ‘In the Heights’ is sheer theatrical excellence...one of the most vibrant, engrossing, and well-produced smaller professional theater productions I’ve had the opportunity to see in a long time." - Alexandra Brown, DC Theatre Arts. https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/06/02/nextstop-theatres-in-the-heights-is-sheer-theatrical-excellence/
Mojada de Luis Alfaro
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
1st Stage, Tyson Corner, VA
April-May 2023
1ststage.org/season-20222023
Alma de Benjamin Benne
Dirección de Elena Velasco
Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Now playing through March 26, 2023
www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/alma/
La Llamada de Sylvia Méndez: Separate is Never Equal
de Cornelia Cody
Dirección y coreografía de Elena Velasco
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20010
www.galatheatre.org/post/separate-is-never-equal-2?lang=es
Synetic Digital Feature:
The Decameron
Produced by Synetic Theater
synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-decameron/
"Elena Velasco is a strong local director and performer in her own right and brings to this fellowship that is Synetic her most serious lens on theatre for social justice....The work is full of restrained sorrow and rage." - Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/12/review-synetic-theaters-the-decameron-day-three-from-somber-to-sexy/
The Decameron
Produced by Synetic Theater
synetictheater.org/event_pages/the-decameron/
"Elena Velasco is a strong local director and performer in her own right and brings to this fellowship that is Synetic her most serious lens on theatre for social justice....The work is full of restrained sorrow and rage." - Susan Galbraith, DC Theatre Scene.
dctheatrescene.com/2020/07/12/review-synetic-theaters-the-decameron-day-three-from-somber-to-sexy/
Óyeme, the Beautiful
A work by Miriam Gonzales, chronicling the lives of immigrant students seeking asylum.
Original direction and choreography by Elena Velasco