José Felipe Martínez Baez

Originally scheduled for 2020, our 2022 resident artist is José Felipe Martínez Báez, Director of the Ballet Folklórico P’indekua from Morelia, Michoacán. Maestro Martínez Báez spent 3 weeks in residency with Los Lupeños and Los Lupeños Juvenil in April and also offered a public workshop in San José multiple public lectures about his home state Michoacán and specific traditions related to el Día de los Muertos.

You can watch his entire lecture, La Tradición de Día de Muertos en la Zona Lacustre de Michoacán, on YouTube.

This Residency was sponsored by generous grant support from the Hewlett Foundation and an Artist Exchange grant from the City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs.