Adal Maldonado - Collaborations

Collaborations

Adál is also known for his collaborations with many different artists. In the mid-1970s, Adál met the late Pedro Pietri, with whom he started a long and fruitful collaboration that lasted until Pietri’s death. Together they developed El Puerto Rican Embassy Project (1994) and Mondo Mambo: A Mambo Rap Sodi - a collaboration with musician Tito Puente and choreographer Eddie Torres, presented at the Public Theater, NYC, in 1990. Adal has also collaborated with Ntozake Shange, creating the Photographic Environmental Design of the play Love Space Demands, 1992 and with Robert Mapplethorpe, in the early 1970s, developing his distinct photographic printing style.