The most compelling testimony to Cecilia Marta's success is her longevity and originality of style.
For twenty years, Panamanian born Cecilia Marta has performed, choreographed and instructed her
distinctive style of jazz starting in the United States and reaching as far as Africa, influencing
the work of her peers worldwide.
Cecilia presently works as dance evaluator for Cirque du Soleil. She also teaches for the Céline
Dion dancers in Las Vegas. Her stage and choreographic credits include Roberta Flack's national and
international television specials and tours; she has performed with Al Jareau, Cissy Houston, with the
prolific poet, interpreter and singer Gil Scott Heron and for Reverend Jesse L. Jackson. In Japan, acting
as choreographer, co-director and performer, she has taken Osaka and Tokyo by storm with her works presented
at the well-known Hakuhinkan and Apple theatres. Her works have been presented in Moscow, Russia, Vienna,
Austria, Hawaii, Southeast Asia, Alberta, Canada, North Africa, Central and South America, and throughout
the United States and Europe. Cecilia has performed at the JVC Jazz Festivals in Nice and Deauville,
France as well as in Newport, Rhode Island and the Lesser Antilles Island of Aruba. She has acted as
producer, artistic director, choreographer and dancer for the Cecilia Marta Dance Company (1992-1997).
Cecilia has taught for the world-renowned Alvin Ailey scholarship program and school attracting past and
present company dancers such as Nasha Thomas, Renée Robinson, Desmond Richardson and Christopher
Huggins. She has established herself at the Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway, and at the San
Francisco Dance Center, home of Alonzo King's, Lines Contemporary Ballet. Dancers trained by Cecilia
have been featured in the movie Chicago, the Broadway production of Fosse, the touring
company of Aida, Madonna's Vogue and Girlie Tour, and The Lion King on
Broadway. Additionally, Cecilia has had the pleasure of teaching and choreographing for professional
rhythmic gymnasts, actors and vocalists.
Cecilia embodies that which makes up a refined dancer: A combination of skill, sensuality, intuitive
musicality and an unparalleled sense of self, enabling her to maintain her status as one of the
freshest and most exciting forces in dance today. Cecilia now resides in New York.
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