GoPra Performance

GoPra Performance was established in 2021. We were formerly called GodoyPradera Projects and GodoyPradera Projects & Programs as we enabled an educational component for the purpose of presenting and developing creations via inclusive art-driven workshops.  These art workshops are for all communities, ages, and actors (Prometeo Theater/Downtown Miami and Miami Theater Center/Miami Shores). Perpetual Mobility and Inner Circle are for professionals mixed with non-professionals inside Dance Festivals and independently programmed sessions.

Who we are

We are dance artists and creators of quite differing trajectories, backgrounds and life experiences making the whole diverse and rich: Lazaro Godoy (Cuban) Artistic Director, Head Choreographer, Workshops Guiding Force, Performer and Carlota Pradera (Spanish) Assistant/Coordinator and Creative Collaborating Performer.

Our story began when we met through movement findings while sparking CREATION Bare Bones, end 2013-beginning of 2014. The foundation was and is us together exchanging life while crafting ongoing CREATIONS: Bare Bones (2014); Harmonicum Accordion | Act l (2015); BrookDale, MEDAKA & Sketches of Spain (2016); Tailypo, ArMOUR & VOLCANIC (2017);  刀 | Katana & Homo Sapiens (2018), Healing-Oasis (2019), Awake Sleeping (2020), MuseMe (2021), PachaMAMAS (2021-2022), Claudel (2022-2023), Petra y El Lobo (2022-2023).

CREATIONS

All Projects and Creations are dreamed, thought-provoked, perceived, drawn and ultimately conceived from an International perspective, pulse and global open receptiveness.

Carlota Pradera (Sabadell, Spain, 1979)

Pradera is from Northern Catalonia. She comes from artistic and scientific family background and has loved both art and science since early childhood. Carlota holds a BA in performance and choreography from Florida International University (2009). In Spain, she studied under Carmen Roche (ballet techniques) and attended Carmen Senra School (modern-dance techniques, contemporary and improvisation practices). In Europe, she attended choreographic workshops with Rui Horta, Ramon Oller, and others. In Miami, Carlota has worked with choreographers  Giovanni Luquini, Heather Maloney, and others, performing her work as a guest artist in several Florida Dance festivals and Moving Current in Tampa. Carlota received several Artist Access Grants by Tigertail Productions to be part of  New York’s Movement Research (2004, 2007, 2013) and Trisha Brown’s Summer Intensive (2007). In 2011, she organized “Pradera and Collaborators”  to create ongoing interdisciplinary projects which presented Think Like a Guy and Looking Back. In 2012, Aquarius  Juice premiered at Here & Now, Miami  Light Project. In 2014, in collaboration with Lazaro Godoy, Bare Bones was created and GodoyPradera Projects (2014-2021)/GoPra Performance (2022-onward) was born and established since. 

Since 2003, Carlota has been guiding workshops for University settings, professional actors and dancers, children and groups of all abilities, and the community at large throughout South Florida for VSAFL, Yep Program, Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc., Kendall Campus, Prometeo Theater, Contemporary Sundays, Shake-a-Leg, Tigertail Productions, Miami Art Museum, after-school programs, youth-at-risk, Arts for Learning, and GoPra’s educational arts platform. 

Lazaro Godoy (Pinar del Río, Cuba 1977)

Godoy studied at “La Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA)” in Havana, Cuba, attended New World School of the Arts high school, received first prize for his solo performance choreography from YoungArts Foundation (1996), and in 2000 graduated with a BA in Dance Performance from The Juilliard School, NYC. Upon Juilliard’s graduation, he was immediately contracted by Introdans, Netherlands, and kept on pursuing his professional career and life in Europe dancing with the Bern Ballett, Switzerland (Stijn Celis-Director) while being contracted independently as an artist to perform, showcase creations, and guide workshops across EU. While in Europe, he performs repertoire by artists Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manen, Jo Stromgren, and others. 

Between 2007-2008, Godoy became rehearsal assistant of Bern Ballett, Beauty More Than Me, Stijn Celis, alongside the materialization of his freelancing career while receiving The Swiss International Choreographic Coaching award (guided by Susanne Linke). By this time under Bern Ballett’s contract, he pursued a multilayered self-training to hone deeper into his physical range and artistic foundation looking to be more diversified, accessible, and creatively independent Perpetual Mobility. He soon moved to live and develop as an artist in Tel Aviv, Israel performing for Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company while showcasing independently at Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater, Hanina Contemporary Art Gallery, and crafting humanitarian Art Projects like StreetStage-delving in the harshness of Sudanese refugees living in the streets of Tel Aviv and Mi Casa Su Casa one night events with artists friends showing works in progress ending up in an all together pARTy with the audience.

Godoy has been living, creating, and guiding workshops across South Florida, NYC, and Cuba, 2014-present via GodoyPradera Projects currently GoPra Performance supported by The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Tigertail Productions, Miami Theater Center, YoungArts, Inkub8, FAENA, Movement Research at The Judson Church (NYC) as well as he has served as a coach for actors in the playwrights The Two-Character Play and Everybody Drinks The Same Water at The Miami Theater Center.