2 p.m. • Sunday Sept. 16, 2012
Reserved seating: $4 advance; $7 door


Tickets from 503-236-7253 or our online box office

Mexico is well known for its legends, myths and tales from the Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecs and Huicholes — legends of love, nature and everyday life. In this family-friendly bilingual performance, Nuestro Canto (Gerardo Calderón and Nelda Reyes) fills the theatre with the magic of masks, movement and imaginative storytelling. Ages 5 and older. Bilingual.

Part of Miracle Theatre Group’s 2012 La Luna Nueva Festival.

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Gerardo Calderón (originally from Mexico) is an award-winning composer and the musical director of Grupo Condor — Latin American Folk Music and Nuestro Canto. He is also a sound designer for ballet and theatre companies, and has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe with folk ensembles, world music ensembles and choirs, playing a variety of Latin stringed instruments and pre-Hispanic percussion and flute. He studied classical guitar at the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City and theory and composition at Portland Community College. His latest CDs are “Viajero/Traveler” (solo) and “Emerald Heart” (collaboration with poet Cindy Williams Gutiérrez).  www.grupo-condor.com

Nelda Reyes, originally from Mexico, is co-founder of Nuestro Canto, She has been a professional actress for over 10 years and has specialized in physical theatre and in Latin American and Mexican cultural expressions. She holds a MA degree in Theatre Arts from Portland State University and also has studied in the Moscow Art Theatre School at Harvard University, with Luis de Tavira, and with Teatro Línea de Sombra in Mexico City. In addition to from her acting experience and education, she has studied language, literature, and classical and folk dance from different cultures, specifically those of Spain and the Caribbean. She has been a performer in ongoing projects at the Company of Theatre of the University of Guadalajara, assisted in the direction of diverse theatrical and opera productions in Mexico, and while in Portland, she has participated in several productions at PSU, Theater! Theatre! and Miracle Theatre Group, both as a performer and educator.