interview by boston neighborhood network news


awards

-Mar Parrilla / Danza Orgánica awarded the Neighborhood and Downtown Activation grant, by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture in the City of Boston.

-Mar Parrilla / Danza Orgánica awarded the Powering Cultural Futures Multiyear Partnership with the BARR Foundation (2021).

-Danza Orgánica awarded multiple COVID relief grants.

-Mar Parrilla recipient of Opportunity Fund 3.0, awarded by the city of Boston, 2019.

-Danza Orgánica awarded the Outstanding Community Arts Collaboration Award in Dance, from Arts/Learning. 2019.

-Selected for The Elma Lewis 2018 Women in Community Arts Collectors Edition Trading Cards. Info here!

-Awarded a Creative Residency as a Boston Schonberg Fellow at The Yard (by invitation from The Yard Director). August 20-September 1, 2018.

-Recipient of Espacio Abierto, a space grant from Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. 2018

-Recipient of Live Arts Boston (LAB) grant, awarded by The Boston Foundation- towards the 5th annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts. Spring 2018.

-Recipient of Boston AIR (artist in residence) award by the city of Boston. See press release.

-Recipient of Next Steps for Boston Dance grant, awarded by a partnership between the Boston Foundation and the Aliad Fund, 2018.

-Commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a fresh new work to be premiered on Summer 2018. This new piece will be a response to Life, Death, & Revelry, an upcoming multidisciplinary exhibition at the ISGM based on the Gardner’s “Farnese Sarcophagus”.

-Recipient of the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award by the Boston Foundation, 2017. (by nomination only)

- Dance Ambassador at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. 2017 (by nomination only)

-Recipient of a Festival Programs Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council towards the annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, 2017.

-Recipient of Opportunity Fund grant, awarded by the Boston Cultural Council- towards our NYC tour of our newest work "Melaza".  Spring/Summer 2017.

-Recipient of Live Arts Boston (LAB) grant, awarded by The Boston Foundation- towards the annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts. Spring 2017.

-Recipient of Development Residency at The Barn Arts Collective, Maine. Summer 2017

-Awarded a Creative Development Residency at Jacob's Pillow (by invitation from the Jacob's Pillow Director) February 20-26, 2017. Click here for Boston Globe announcement.

-Recipient of New England Dance Fund, awarded by the New England Foundation for the Arts, 2016

-Selected as Luminary Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Neighborhood Salon 2016-2017 (by nomination only)

-Recipient of scholarship for the Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, 2016

-Recipient of New England Foundation of the Arts' Creative City Grant, for the project: Running in Stillness, 2016-2017. Click here for press release. 

-Recipient of a Festival Programs Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council towards the annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, 2016.

-Recipient of space grant (Artist-in-Residence) at the Tony Williams Dance Center, for Running in Stillness, 2015-2017.

-Green Street Studios company residency, (2014-2015)

-Recipient of E-MERGE residency at Earthdance, MA (2015) 

-Recipient of I-ARE  (Integrated Artist Residency) at the Dance Complex, (2014)

-Recipient of Dome Away from Home Foundation's rehearsal and retreat space grant, in Vermont. (2013)

-Recipient of Green Street Studios New Works Program.  (2013).

-Recipient of Boston Dance Alliance's Fourth Rehearsal and Retreat Fellowship (2012).

-Selected as a "RAW Artist" in the field of performance/video (2012).

-Recipient of Boston Center for the Arts' "Movement at the Mills" rehearsal space and performance grant (2010).


media-press

-Mar Parrilla featured at the Arts & Business council. 2020.
-Mar Parrilla interviewed for the fifth issue of the Boston Art Review magazine.
-Motion State Dance Festival, RI featured at the Motif Magazine
-We Are Here (Work in Progress), reviewed by the MV Times.
-Melaza, Work in Process reviewed at the Bay State Banner.
-Dance for Social Justice curriculum featured at WBUR's The ARTery.
-Danza Orgánica featured at The Boston Globe.
-Marsha Parrilla featured as a Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
-Marsha Parrilla featured at The Boston Voyager.
-DSJ workshop featured at Antioch University News. 2018.
-Marsha Parrilla featured at the Summer 2018 issue of the Improper Bostonian.
-Melaza article/podcast, based on performance at Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, 2018.
-Melaza featured at the Dartmouth News.
-DSJ featured at FJORD. 2017.
-Brother Thomas Fellows Announcements: The Boston Foundation. 
-Spotlight interview at The Daily Free Press.
-Highlighted at the Boston Globe's announcement of Boston-area grants. 
-DSJ Spotlight feature at ArtWeek Boston. 
-10 Minutes with Marsha Parrilla- Jacob's Pillow Interview. 
-Interview at the Fjord Review, by Merli Guerra.
-Marsha Parrilla featured on the February 2017 issue of the Dance Teacher Magazine. 
-Highlighted at the Brattleboro Reformer. 
-Running in Stillness, featured at the Metro Boston, on its performance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

- The Daily Free Press Article: “Running in Stillness” dance production highlights dangers surrounding female incarceration.

- Running in Stillness featured at Dorchester Reporter. 

-Boston Globe announces residency at Jacob's Pillow.

-Featured interview at Boston Neighborhood Network News. 

-Featured at WBZ Radio (CBS Boston) - Interview on We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, 2016
-We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, featured at the Dorchester Reporter, 2016
-We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, featured at the Boston Neighborhood Network program: Around Town (2015) Click here to see full coverage.
- Article by Puerto Rico Sun (2007).

   

danza orgánica performed two excerpts of  Bajo Mi Piel  at the Figment, in Boston MA. In this clip Jimmy Reardon, director of the Boston Dance Company, reviews the full length concert: Bajo Mi Piel, and recognizes Marsha Parrilla as a "first class, world choreographer". 


audience reviews 


" I have been to a number of dance performances around Cambridge, and I felt Marsha's was by far the most intentional, potent, and full of heart.  It was really beautiful and refreshing." 

Pamela Scorza



" You have such fluidity, presence beyond your body, energy and connection to those you dance with. The variation in your choreography is amazing. You have discovered/invented such an array of vocabulary in movement, tension and presence." Mary Barnes


" A wonderful display of great talent and hard work...  It was absolutely great. I enjoyed every bit of the show." 

Phakamani Pega


mar parrilla at the premiere of the short film "Gris" at RAW, Boston.  (goals from 2009)

 







"The company is wonderful and your choreography, first rate... Thank you for treating us all to fabulous modern dance." Nancy Kohn

"So much complexity, and so much humanity!... Your work weaves through all the multifarious possibilities we are confronted with..." 

Pamela Thayer