Choreography
CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
Fiesta Melodrama
Santa Fe Playhouse
Santa Fe, NM - August 23rd, 2023 to September 10th, 2023
Santa Fe Playhouse
Written by Bawdy & Beautiful Santa Feans
Directed by Felix Cordova
Now in its 101st year, the Fiesta Melodrama is Santa Fe’s oldest theatrical tradition, written in-house by bawdy and beautiful anonymous Santa Feans. The Melodrama is our community’s farcical Year in Review, skewering politicians, public-school policy, police, the press, and everything else that makes Santa Fe so “different.” Directed by 10-year Melodrama veteran Felix Cordova.
Nominated for Best Choreography Of a Play or Musical! Vote here: Broadway World Albuquerque Awards 2023
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Santa Fe Playhouse
Santa Fe, NM - July 13th, 2023 to August 12th, 2023
Santa Fe Playhouse
Book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman
Music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak
Based on the novel, Israel Rank by Roy Horniman
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio
Musical Direction by Stephen Anthony Elkins
An Edwardian-style murderous musical farce. Winner of four Tony Awards in 2014, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical. When British, newly orphaned Monty Navarro discovers he’s ninth in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst, he decides to murder every member of the high-society D’Ysquith family standing in his way, all the while keeping a mistress, Sibella Hallward, and courting the young Phoebe D’Ysquith. In this laugh-filled musical, the same actor plays all eight of the doomed heirs. Read Jacie Camborde’s review for Broadway World here: Broadway World Review
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Millenial Music Makers (Tri-M) Productions
Santa Fe, NM - October 2022
Santa Fe Playhouse
Laura Orozco Garrett’s first full length musical. “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gilbert. The plot follows the story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. Orozco Garrett embraced the challenge of creating comedic moments on stage and working with actors who have a range of dance experience. Jackie Camborde from Broadway World noted the choreography as “very innovative and matched the tone of the piece.” Read her review here: Broadway World Review
Lithosphere Heart: The Choreopoem
In collaboration with Tatiana Isabel Gil & Breana Conner
Albuquerque, NM - August 2022
Fusion Theater
A young woman, reckless in her pursuit of her deepest desires, learns how to love herslef while reconciling the intersections of her identity as Queer, Catholic and Latina. Through a kaleidoscopic landscape of music, prayer, memory, art, and imagination punctuated by four love affairs, Lithosphere Heart chronicles the soaring heights and scarring lows of teenage Alejandra’s journey towards self-discovery and healing.
Lithosphere Heart: The Choreopoem is a mixed-media theater dance choreo-poem workshop performance which explores selected movement pieces from Tatiana Isabel’s full length play. Laura Orozco Garrett worked in collaboration with Tatiana and breana to bring the movement pieces to life. She also produced video for the stage to create dream sequences.
Moving Arts Española
Española, NM - July 2022
Moving Arts Española
Using “I Am” poems from the Moving Arts Española Teen Leadership program, Laura Orozco Garrett created a soundscape and dance with a group of select group of dancers to be performed at the Moving Arts Gala 2022.
Moving Arts Española Gala
Spring Awakening
Millennial Music Makers (Tri-M) Productions
Santa Fe, NM - June 2022
The Actor’s Lab
Laura Orozco Garrett served as the Assistant Choreographer and Dance Captain. Orozco Garrett worked along side choreographer Elizabeth Barnes and assisted where was necessary during the rehearsal process.
Spring Awakening is a coming-of-age rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late 19th-century Germany, the musicals tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of adolescent sexuality.
So Noted
Goucher College
Baltimore, MD - April 2021
Kraushaar Auditorium
This work began in 2020 as a collaborative project between Laura Orozco Garrett, Clare Kresse and professor Amanda Thom Woodson. Together, they imagined dancers, singers, and projections on the stage performing live with music notes and labanotation (the only notation system for dance) racing across vertical screens in sync with the movers. The piece was halted by the pandemic and transformed into a dance film. Laura Orozco Garrett animated, filmed, and edited the dance film.
Watch the full work here: So Noted
Holding US
TEDx MC2School
Online - November 2020
During the summer of 2020, Laura Orozco Garrett, Kennedy Butterfield, Jamison Curcio, and Sarah Foucher created The Pod Project. The Pod Project evolved out of a need to continue to be in a creative community with fellow artists. They are a group of colleagues from across the country who came together to support and uplift each other and their communities during the pandemic of 2020.
Holding US asks you to participate in our exploration of the following questions:
What does it mean to be held? Who is held in society? Who is not held? When is the last time you felt held?
Our collaborative team is held by each other. In this film, we hold the voices of our communities. And together, we are holding you.
Watch the full work here: Holding Us
Junto a ti
Goucher College
Baltimore, MD - March 2020
Kay Theater
"Emerging through ritual and ceremony and reminiscent of Mesoamerican culture and design, Junto a Ti is a choreographic essay that centers the Latino/a/x experience in the U.S. Performed by a mixed-race cast, the work offers a vision of inclusion, healing, and allyship during this complicated, racially charged political moment." - Peter Carpenter, Gerald Cassel and Jan Erkert
Junto a ti was selected for the National College Dance Festival by the American College Dance Association in 2020.
Junto a ti is the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Brooke Pierce Award in Fine Arts.
Laura Orozco Garrett writes:
Junto a ti is an homage to my great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother, who are the Latina women that have empowered me throughout my life. Each of them have lived lives of resiliency and strength. My great-grandmother, Dora Perez, fled to Dolores, Texas in 1912 to escape the violence of the Mexican Revolution, and worked picking cotton while being paid in script which is not legal tender. My grandmother, Enriqueta Gonzalez Orozco, faced intense discrimination and segregation in Dallas, Texas, but she constantly stood up in the face of adversity and was a strong activist for justice. My mother, Diana Orozco-Garrett, was the first Latina elected Judge in Dallas County and served Spanish-speaking communities. Their stories give me strength. They remind me that I come from a long line of mujeres fuertes / strong women.
While creating this piece, I asked myself “How can I speak about my Hispanic heritage without addressing the Hispanic families who are being torn apart from each other today?”. Therefore the third section of the piece is a call for action to address the family separation occurring at the border. During this section, I used the song “Toda una vida” by Chavela Vargas. The lyrics translate to “All of my life, I would be with you, I don’t care in what way, nor where or how, but next to you”.
