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Education

Ph.D.              Performance Studies

2020                University of California, Berkeley

Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

 

M.A.               International Performance Research

2013                University of Warwick (England)

School of Theatre and Performance Studies

 

B.A./B.F.A     Anthropology/Modern Dance

2008                University of Utah

 

Positions held

2022                Cornell University, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Assistant Professor, Latina/o Studies Program (Affiliate Faculty)

 

2020                Cornell University, Society for the Humanities, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2022

 

2019                University of California-Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Graduate Student Instructor, Spring 2015- Fall 2019, Sole Course Responsibility.

 

2010                University of Utah, Department of Modern Dance, Visiting Lecturer

 

Publications

Monograph(s)

The Alien Commons: Choreography and Performance Beyond Citizenship (In progress)

 

Refereed Journal Articles

2023                “Ungrievable Aliens: Choreographing Deportation in David Herrera’s TOUCH.” Dance Research Journal (Resubmission Under Review)

 

2022                “Love and Theft in Dance Economies.” Performance Philosophy (Accepted, Resubmission Under Review)

 

2022                “Forensic Performances: Searching for Justice in NAKA Dance Theater’s BUSCARTE: Duet,” Theatre Research International. 40 (1). pp 46-62.

 

2021                “De-scriptive Vomiting in Sarah Minter’s Alma punk,” Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture Journal (revise and resubmit)

 

2020                “Pleasure in Circulation: Erotic Power on the Migrant Road to Amarillo,Investigaciones en Danza y Movimiento (v.2, n.3, July-December 2020, pp. 2-17)

 

Book Chapters

2018                “Violence and Performance Research Methods: Direct-Action, ‘Die-ins,’ and Allyship in the Black Lives Matter era” In Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact. Eds. Bruce Barton and et al. New York: Routledge, 2018. 311-332.

2017                “The Global Graduate: Graduating in the Time of the Global University,” with Lisa Skwirblies, In  International Performance Research. Eds. Sruti Bala et Al. Cham: Palgrave, 2017. 83-94.

2015                “Choreographic Mobilities: Embodied Migratory Acts Across the US-Mexico Border,” In Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World. Eds. Sarah Whatley, Natalie Garrett Brown, Kirsty Alexander. Devon: Triarchy Press, 2015. 62-74. Print.

 

Book Reviews

2023                “To Feel and to Move: Tracing the Borders of Dance Studies and Refugee Studies” Dance Chronicle, Forthcoming

2021                “Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires by Victoria Fortuna” Investigaciones en Danza y Movimiento, August 2021.

 

Other Publications

2020                “Choreographers are essential workers.” The Ithacan, Dec. 9, 2020

2019                “Dancing Again: My Body After a Near-Death Accident,” In Dance Magazine. Dancers Group (June 2019).

2017                “REST/UNREST: Latina/o/x choreographers provide community and craft to strategize, recover, and resist.” In Dance Magazine. Dancers Group (October 2017)

2012                “Deschooling Dance.” LoveDanceMore Performance Journal Vol. 5, Fall (2012).

2011                “The Critic Is Dead.” LoveDanceMore Performance Journal Vol. 3, Fall (2011).

2011                “Three Sweet Years.” LoveDanceMore Performance Journal Vol. 2, Spring (2011).

Awards and honors

2022                Cornell Council for the Arts 2022 Biennale Grant

2021                Building Mentorship Skills for Academic Careers Program

2021                Cornell Council for the Arts Artist Grant

2021                Artist in Community Grant. Community Arts Partnership

2020                NextGen Professors Program

2020                The Dunbar Ogden Graduate Prize in Theater History, UC Berkeley

2019                Sara Huntsman Sturgess Memorial Prize for Outstanding Artistic Accomplishment in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 2018-2019, UC Berkeley

2019                Andrew W. Mellon/Dance Studies Association’s Seminar for Emergent Scholars, August 7-8, 2019

2017                Cultural Pathways Arts Organizational Development Cohort, 2017-2019

2016                Debut Panel, Congress on Research in Dance, Pomona, California, November 2016

2015                Conference Travel Bursary Award, International Federation for Theatre Research, Hyderabad, India. July 2015

2014                Conference Travel Bursary Award, International Federation for Theatre Research, Coventry, UK. July 2014

2013                Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention)

2013                Conference Travel Bursary Award, International Federation for Theatre Research, Barcelona, Spain. July 2013

2013                Warwick Global Graduate Gold Award, University of Warwick. 2013

2012                Top 30 Screen Dances for Kosovska 39: Into Hiding. 60secondsdance.dk, Denmark. March 2012.

2011                Erasmus Mundus Scholar. European Commission: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), 2011

2011                Arty, Finalist, Best Choreography. City Weekly’s Best of 2010, Salt Lake City, UT. Spring 2010.

2011                Arty, Best Outward Mobility. City Weekly’s Best of 2011, Salt Lake City, UT.  Spring 2011.

2009                The Award Show (Salt Lake City). Best Choreography. Sugar Space Studio for the Arts, Salt Lake City, UT. 2009

2008                Artsbridge Scholar. University of Utah. Spring 2008

2006                Founder’s Day Scholar. University of Utah. Fall 2006.

2006                Barbara and Norman Tanner Scholar, University of Utah, 2003-2006

2006                Orchesis-Dance Honors Society Member

2005                Emma Eccles Fine Arts House Scholar, University of Utah

2004                E.R. Hayes Scholar, University of Utah. 2002-2004.

 

 

INVITED TALKS

 

2023                “Seeing and Experiencing Latinx Contemporary Dance,” Latinx Research Center, UC Berkeley, California. October 25, 2023.

2023                “The Dangers of Arrivant Choreographies.” York University. Dance Graduate Symposium. April 2023.

2022                Latinx Art Summit at the University of Texas-Austin, College of Fine Arts

2020                “Latinx Immigrant Choreographies.” Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Virtual Conference. November 11, 2020.

2020                “Searching of the Missing: Performance, Forensics, and Democracy.” Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, January 30, 2020.

2018                “Where the disappeared are forced to roam: Forensic Performances and Mexican Artistic Practice,” Latinx Research Center, Berkeley, California, November 29, 2018.

2018                “Choreotopias: Asaltodiario’s Street Choreographies in Mexico City, 1985-1994.” Global Urban Humanities Colloquium, The City and Its People. UC Berkeley. September 11, 2018.

2018                “Choreotopias: Dance and Desmadre in Mexico City.” Dance Under Construction, April 6, 2018, UC Riverside

2017                “Los Angeles in Retrograde: Zari Le’on’s Choreotopias Across Colonialscapes.” Dance Performance and History. University of Utah, September 13, 2017.

2017                “Migracíon y la Vida Artistica: Proceso y Metodo en Creacíon.” Universidad Autonama de Mexico (UNAM), May 14, 2017.

2017                “Choreographic Research: Migration and Performance.” Immigration and Performance, Stanford University, May 8, 2017, Palo Alto, CA

2016                “Pleasure in Circulation: Negotiating the Erotic on the Road to Amarillo.” Presenter. Framing Migration Conference. UC Berkeley, CA. April 2016.

2013                “Performance and Immigration in Mexico since the 1980s.” Migration and Performance, University of Warwick, January 22, 2013, Coventry, UK

Conference Participation

Panels Organized

2022                “Illegal Epistemologies: Undocumented and Formerly Undocumented Scholars Discuss Theory, Methods, and the Field of Undocuscholarship,” American Studies Association. November 2022

2022                “Activism, Public Space, Hemispheric Mobilities, and Racialized Bodies in Latin America,” Dance Studies Association, October 2022.

2019                “Unofficial Use: Common Narratives, Histories of Violence, and the Moving Archive.” Dance Studies Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. August 2019.

2017                “Dis/embodied Pedagogies: Feeling ‘Blackness’ and Conjuring Anti-Blackness.” American Studies Association, November 2017, Chicago, IL

2017                “Contemporary (Dis)Placements: Choreographies of Émigré Bittersweetness, Colonial Retrograde, and Racialized Stillness.” Dance Studies Association (Formerly CORD), October 2017, Columbus, OH

2011                “Tame Dance.” Utah Dance Professionals Summit. Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. September 13, 2011.

Papers Presented

2023                “Illegal Migration: Embodiment and Choreography Beyond Citizenship.” Mobilities on the Turn? Dance Studies Association. The Place, London, United Kingdom.  September 8, 2023.

2022                “Illegal Contact with the Border: Embodiment in David Herrera’s TOUCH,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, September 2022

2021                “Latinx Settler Colonialism Cannot Be Ignored: Dancing Migrant Rights and Enacting Indigenous Erasure.” Dance Studies Association. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. October 2021.

2021                “Dancing While Undocumented: The Shadows of Legality in Gabriel Mata’s This is Where/I Begin.” American Studies Association. Virtual Conference. October 2021.

2019                “Where the Disappeared Are Forced to Roam: Forensic Performances and Common Lies.” Dance Studies Association. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. August 2019.

2019                “Punk Moves and Other Utopic Desires: The Authorship of Piracy.” Encuentro. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City. Conference Presentation. June 2019.

2018                “Choreotopias: Assaulted Desires in Asaltodiario’s Street Choreographies in Mexico City from 1985-1994.” Dance Studies Association, July 2018, Malta

2017                “Los Angeles in Retrograde: Zari Le’on’s Choreotopias Across Colonialscapes.” Presenter, Dance Studies Association (Formerly CORD), October 2017, Columbus, OH

2016                “Choreographing Latin American Knots: CatherineMarie Davalos’ Interlatino Moves in Return, Hiss Panicss, The Invisible American.” Presenter. Congress on Research on Dance. Debut Panel. Pomona College, California. November 2016

2016                “The Subaltern is Undocumented and Unafraid.” Encuentro. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Universidad de Chile, Chile. Conference Presentation. August 2016.

2016                “Picking Grapes, Pulling Histories: Teatro Campesino’s Genealogies and Performance Practices of Food Security and Labor.” Presenter. International Federation for Theatre Research. Performance as Research Panel. Stockholm, Sweden. June 2016.

2015                “Violent Democracies: Performance Practices of Death and Brutality as a Claim to Justice.” Presenter. International Federation for Theater Research. University of Hyderabad, India. June 2015.

2014                “Taking Up Space: Performance as Research Aims to Occupy.” Presenter. International Federation for Theatre Research, PaR Working Group. University of Warwick, UK. August, 2014.

2013                “Choreographic Mobilities.” International Federation for Theatre Research, PaR Working Group. Institute de Teatre, Barcelona, Spain. 21-26 July, 2013. Conference Presentation.

2012                “The Subaltern is Undocumented and Unafraid: Performing a New American Citizenship Aesthetic.” Presenter. Rethinking the Americas: Peoples, Places and Cultures; Americas Research Group PG Conference. University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK. March 2012.

2011                “Movement Horizon: Gesture-Based Technology to Define Teaching Methods.” Utah Dance Education Organization, Spring Conference. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. 2011. Conference Presentation.

2010                “Online Video Madness: What’s the Big Deal?” Teaching and Technology Idea Exchange, University of Utah. Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT. 10-11 June, 2010. Conference Presentation.

Discussant

 

2022                Panel Discussant, “Queer Nightlife, Communal Intimacies, and Dance Across Borders in Contemporary Mexico,” Dance Studies Association, October 2022

2021                Book Response Discussion with Author: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (2021) by Sonia Gollance. November 11, 2021.

2021                Moving in Coalition. Dance Studies Association. October 16, 2021.

2021                Article Response Discussion with Author: A Gregarious Species (2021) by Natasha Raheja. March 25, 2021.

2020                “Breaking Borders: Hip-Hop Theater and Latinidad” in conversation with Victor Quijada, October 14, 2020

2019                “Does Abstraction Belong to White People?: Thinking the Politics of Race in Dance” in Conversation with Miguel Gutierrez, Latinx Research Center, November 2019

2019                “Borderlines, Aesthetics, and the Alien: A look at contemporary dance from Mexico and Beyond” Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland, January 2019

2018                “Latinx Aesthetics in Dance,” Latinx Research Center. Berkeley, California, November 7, 2018.

2018                “Creating in a Time of Crisis,” FRESH Festival, San Francisco, January, 2018

2016                Berkeley Dance Project, Zellerbach Theater, UC Berkeley 2016

2015                Latinidad and Contemporary Dance. California Institute of Integral Studies. September 16, 2015.

2011                UDEO High School Dance Festival, Ogden, UT; March 19, 2011

 

Campus or Departmental Talks

 

2023                “Ungrievable Aliens: Choreographing Deportation in David Herrera’s TOUCH. Migrations Summer Pathways Program

2023                Performance as Research in Migration Studies and Methodologies, Migrations Pathways Summer Program

2022                Guadalupe Maravilla Guest Artist Visit, “Introductory Remarks,” The Johnson Museum of Art, April 27, 2022.

2022                “Undocumented Cultural Production and Research,” Cornell University, Latina/o Studies Faculty Series, March 3, 2022.

2021                “Undocuqueer Desires in Julio Salgado’s Immigrants Just Wanna Perrear.” Migrations Forum. Cornell University

2021                “Dance and Ethics,” BreakFree Dance Group Guest Speaker, April 11, 2021

2020                “Bridges Between Artistic Research and Practice,” Graduate Pro Seminar Series, Cornell University, November 10, 2020

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Cornell University

Introduction to Performing and Media Arts (2024), Instructor of Record

 

Performance and Immigration (Spring 2023, Spring 2024), Instructor of Record

 

Latinx Theater Production (Spring 2023), Instructor of Record

 

Dance in America: Culture, Identities, and Fabrication (Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023) Instructor of Record, Upper Division Undergraduate Course

 

The Politics of Movement: Bodies, Space, and Motion (Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2023) Instructor of Record, Graduate/Upper Division Undergraduate Course

 

Intro to (Afro)Latinx Contemporary Dance (Spring 2022), Instructor of Record

 

Global Dance (Fall 2021), Instructor of Record

 

Arts and Sciences Advising Seminar (Fall 2023), Instructor of Record

 

 

University of California, Berkeley

Dance and The Political: Unruly Moves Since the 1960s. (Spring 2019) Instructor of Record; Sole course responsibility, 18 students; Fulfills Reading and Composition Course Requirement

 

Dance in American Culture (Fall 2018) Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley; Discussion Section Leader, 60 students; Fulfills American Cultures Requirement

 

Performance, Television, and Social Media (Summer 2017); Discussion Section Leader, 50 students; Section Blog: https://juanmanuel118ac.wordpress.com; Fulfills American Cultures Requirement
Undocumented Subjects: Performance and Immigration in and outside the United States (Spring 2017; Fall 2016); Instructor of Record; Sole course responsibility, 18 students; Fulfills Research Requirement; Course Fieldtrip to Immigration Detention Center in Oakland, California

 

Performance Workshop (Summer 2015); Instructor of Record; Sole course responsibility, 5 students; Develop, produce, and perform evening-length dance theater production with undergraduate students

 

University of Utah

Advanced Improvisation and Dance Composition (Fall 2010) Department of Dance University of Utah, Co-teaching Responsibility; 23 students; Fulfills Dance Composition Requirement

 

 

SERVICE

Profession

2022                Board of Directors, Dance Studies Association, Three-year Term

2021                Journal Manuscript Reviewer Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, University of Kansas

2020                Journal Manuscript Reviewer; PARTake: Journal for Performance as Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Since 2017

2018                Convener, International Federation for Theater Research, Performance as Research Working Group, 2015-2018

 

Department/University

2023                Pedagogy Committee, Dept. Performing and Media Arts Department

2023                Mentorship and Guidance Workshop, “First Generation Graduate Experiences and Becoming a Professor,” Migrations Summer Pathways Program,

2022                Search Committee, “Intermedia Movement Faculty,” Dept. of Performing and Media Arts

2022                New Core Course Development, Dept. of Performing and Media Arts

2021                (Afro)Latinx, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous Performance, Co-Founder, 2021 to Present

2020                Dance Studies Working Group, Organizer, 2016-Present

2020                Performance in the Americas Working Group Coordinator, 2014-Present

2016                Graduate Assembly Delegate, 2015-2016

2016                Rover-Graduate Student Movement Series; UC Berkeley, 2014-2016

2015                Production Committee; Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, 2014-2015.

2014                Performance Studies Graduate Speaker Series, Committee; UC Berkeley, 2014-2016

 

Community

2020                No Mas Lagrimas/No More Tears Dance and Theater Instructor

2018                College Club, Impact Academy of Arts and Tech, January 30-April 30, 2018.

2014                Latino Advisory Council, Mixed Blood Theatre, Artist Advisory Board, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013-2014

2011                Artist Advisory Board. Sugar Space Studio for the Arts. May 2010-2011, 616 East Wilmington Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT 84106

2011                Panelist. The Sugar Show. Fall 2011, Rose Wagner Theatre. Salt Lake City, UT,

2008                Program Developer/WebMaster/Associate Director. Utah DiverCity: November 2008-2011, Salt Lake City, UT 84104 www.utahdivercity.org

2008                Program Developer/WebMaster. Utah Dream Center: November 2008-Present, Salt Lake City, UT 84126 www.utahdreamcenter.org

2005                Coordinator and Volunteer. Performing Arts Camp (PAC): July 30-August 3 2007 (Coordinator); July 31–August 4 2006 (Coordinator); August 8-12 2005 (Coordinator); August 2-6 2004. University of Utah, Utah

2005                Program Developer/Director. Body Words: Fall 2005. Day Riverside Library, Salt Lake City, UT 8411 (801) 594-8632

 

Related Professional Experience

 

2020                Co-Director, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, San Francisco, CA, April 2015-Present

2015                Research Assistant, Teatro Project Studio Workshop, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, Fall 2014- Spring 2015, Professor Angela Marino

2016                Director, A PerFarmance Project, Jan 2013-2016

2012                Research Assistant, STATION-Service for Contemporary Dance, Spring 2012; Belgrade, Serbia

2011                Director and Choreographer, JuMo Dance, Summer 09-2011; Salt Lake City, USA

2011                Instructor and Performer, Movement Forum Improvisational Dance Company, Summer 2003-2011; Salt Lake City, USA

2009                Performer, Dance Koester Dance Company, 2007-2009; Salt Lake City, UT

2006                Performer, Eloy Barragan Dance Company, June-August 2006, Iowa City, Iowa and New York City, NY

2006                Research Assistant, University of Iowa, June – August 2006

2004                Administrative Assistant, American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina

 

Professional memberships

 

International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), 2012-Present

Dance Studies Association (formerly CORD), 2012-Present

American Studies Association, 2016-Present

 

Choreography and directing

2022                Armadillos (Little Armored Ones), October 2022

 

2021                Regio (Royal), May 21 and 23, 2021

 

2020                Untitled, Collaboration with LilyPad Puppet Theater, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, November 11, 2020

 

2019                Y Basta Ya, Collaborator with NAKA Dance Theater and Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Women’s Building, San Francisco, May 31-June 1, 2019

 

2017                Cacacartel, Cucucumbia, Live Arts in Resistance, Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland, California, March 17-18, 2017

 

2016                Soil, PerFarmance Project; Coventry, England, UK, July 2016

 

Cinco Palmas; UC Berkeley; Berkeley, CA, February, 2016

 

2015                Land that Speaks, PerFarmance Project; Madison, Minnesota, USA, July 2015

Cinco Palmas (Excerpt); Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 24-27, 2015.

 

Funeral of Necessity; Lab Run, Room 7, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, April 30-May 2, 2015.

 

2014                Psychosis 4.48; Casa de la Cultura; Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

2013                Birthday, Birthday; Zenon Dance Zone Fall Residency Choreographer, The Cowles Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2013

 

Cacartels, Cacaffeine and Cucumbia; Choreographers Evening, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2013

 

A Village in the Woods on the Hill at the Crossroads of the World, Unlisted, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2013

 

Transfer Over Wooden Tables; A PerFarmance Project, Cloneen, Ireland, April 13 – May 2, 2013
www.perfarmanc.es

 

“Performance Mapping Project.” Arrivals/Departure Video/Film Exhibit. Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 17 Jan-March 2013. Exhibition Presentation.

 

2012                Singular/Plural; Unlisted, BITEF Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, Sept 17-23, 2012

 

Los Tres Peligros; Site-Specific Performance, San Francisco del Rincon, GTO, Mexico, Sept 8-9, 2012

 

La Bestia y La Mochila; Site-Specific Performance, Irapuato, GTO, Mexico, August 18, 2012

 

Movement Forum at The Leonardo; Salt Lake City, UT, USA, July 27, 2012

 

Mapping Balkan Cities Through Dance; Prishtina, Kosovo, Novi Sad, Serbia, Bor, Belgrade, February 2012-June 2012

 

2011                The Artist is Not Present; Mudson Series, September 19, 2011, Masonic Temple, Salt Lake City, UT

 

A comic hero of two cultures; What Type Are You?, April 22-23, 2011, The Rose Est., Salt Lake City, UT

 

Future Step/Paso; Mudson Series, April 18, 2011, Masonic Temple, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Prison of Form; Apple Heel, Flying Fish, Mar. 25-26, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, NY

 

A comic victim of two cultures ( work-in-progress); 5 New Days, Jan. 5, 2011, Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
2010                There Was Almost No Movement; Movement Gallery, Nov. 19-20, 2010, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Prison of Form; DUMBO Dance Festival, Sept. 24-26, 2010, John Ryan Theatre, New York City, New York

 

Fragmented Memory; Rowland Hall Saint Mark’s High School, Fall 2010, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Hogar; El Convivo/Gathering, Sept. 17, 2010, Mestizo Institute of Culture and Art, Salt Lake City, UT

 

From Any Waffling Moment; What If, April 2, 2010 Jenne Wagner Center, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Prison of Form; The Grey Area, March 4-6, 2010 Sugarspace Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Another Time Stamp on this Old Map; The Grey Area, March 4-6, 2010 Sugarspace Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Everybody’s Business; The Grey Area, March 4-6,2010 Sugarspace Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2009                Prison of Form (Work-in-Progress); Artists with Audiences Responding to Dance, November 14, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Emoticon; Rowland Hall Saint Mark’s High School, Spring 2009, Salt Lake City, UT
2008                Zodiac Tattoo; September 26-27, 2008, Rose Wagner Blackbox, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Viscosity; Proving Ground Series, September 13-14, 2008, Rose Wagner Blackbox, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Need; Sojourn Challenge Conference, June 28, 2008, Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Moving Histories, Shifting Bodies, Artsbridge America, March 7, 2008, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2007                M; Artists with Audiences Responding to Dance, Nov. 17, 2007 Sugar Space; Salt Lake City, UT

 

The Game; New York International Fringe Festival, August 15-19, 2007; New York City, NY

 

Movement Forum Presents: The Game, August 2007; Salt Lake City, UT
2006                Aun no Se Habian Apagado los Fuegos de la Revolucion.
Agora (Here), April 6-8, 2006 University of Utah Modern Dance Dept. Senior Concert; Salt Lake City, UT
2005                Without/Within; Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll, Spring 2005, Salt Lake City, UT
Residencies

2018                FRESH Dance Festival, San Francisco, California, January, 13-18, 2018

2016                University of Warwick, England, May 12-June 12, 2016

2015                Museum of Contemporary Art Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico; October 6-9, 2015

2014                Zenon Dance Company- Fall 2013 Dance Zone Guest Choreographer, Minneapolis, MN; Fall 2013

2013                Village in the Woods on a Hill at Cross of the World. UNLISTED Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. 21-29 September 2013. Performance and Exhibition.

2013                STATION-Center for Contemporary Dance, Belgrade, Serbia; March 2012-2013

2012                Singular/Plural. UNLISTED BITEF Festival Belgrade, Serbia. 17-23 September 2012. Presentation.

Rowland Hall Saint Marks, SLC, UT; Fall 2010

2010                Olympus High School, SLC, UT; Fall 2010

2009                Sugar Space Performing Arts Center; SLC, UT; September 2007- Fall 2009

2009                Rowland Hall Saint Marks, SLC, UT; Spring 2009

2008                Weber State University, Ogden, UT; Fall 2008

2008                Snow College, Ephraim, UT; Spring 2008

2008                West High School, SLC, UT; Spring 2005-2008

2007                Youth Artways, SLC, UT; Spring 2006-Fall 2007

2008                Apple Valley High School, Minneapolis, MN; Spring 2007, Winter 2008

2007                Olympus High School, Holladay, UT; Fall 2007

 

Dance Choreographer; Performance Studies Scholar; Story Teller; Latinx/Latin American Studies Specialist