UC Irvine

As an American contemporary modern dance maker, I explore the ways in which my Mexican-American female identity reveals itself in my choreographic work. In this two-fold dance thesis research, I insightfully search for mind and body connectives to help increase awareness centered around various parts of my ethnicity. I inquire about my mixture of histories, lineages, and experiences and share my collaborative choreographic process for the making of Agave Americana, a dance work that premiered on April 25-26th, 2019 at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab. I poetically insert my personal perspective of dance making to engage with a broader discourse in the fields of cultural studies, feminism, and the contemporary dance making body.