Dancer Dance
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PROFESSIONAL DANCE TRAINING:
National School of the Arts, Havana, Cuba B.A.,
May 1994; Certified as Dance Professor and Professional dancer;
Distinction in both modem and folkloric dance
1993-1994
Trained and performed with the Cuban National Folkloric Company and Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
1986-1989
Vocational School of the Arts, Santiago de Cuba
PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING EXPERIENCE:
2003- 2010
Palomar College Faculty Performance
1999-2002
Company Dancer, ODC/San Francisco
Tours include: The Joyce Theater, New York, NY; Performing Arts
Center, Newark, NJ; The Getty Museum Concert Series, Los Angeles, CA;
Leverkusen, Germany; University of Hawaii, UC Santa Cruz, Cal State LA,
Cal State Monterey Bay, George Mason University, Kentucky Center for the Arts,
Penn State University, Vanderbilt University and four seasons at the Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999
Performed with Robert Moses' Kin, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and
Theater Artaud, San Francisco
1994-1998
Soloist with the professionally touring company Cutumba: Ballet Folkorico
Afro-Cubano, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
GUEST PERFORMANCES:
2007
11th Annual Exploration in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum, Humbolt University, Acadia CA
Black Choreographer Festival, San Francisco, CA
Cuban Spirit, City College, San Diego, CA
2003
Guest Dancer, "Bravura!" The Blankenship Ballet Company, Riverside California
Guest Dancer and Choreographer, "Mis Suefios, Mis Ideas," San Francisco, CA
2002
Guest Dancer and Choreographer, "The Quilt Project," San Francisco, CA
Artistic Director and Featured Performer of Emese, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
2001
Principal Dancer and Guest Choreographer for the Warner Brothers film The Matrix Reloaded
2000
Guest Artist with Cuban company Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, California Tour
1999
October 2000 Guest Soloist with Cuban company Ban Rra Rra, California Tour
Guest Soloist in the "Peña Cultural Colombiana" Fort Mason Center
1999
Soloist in "Celebrating the African Diaspora" performance University of California, Berkeley
Guest Soloist in the Retrospective of Cuban Dance Performance, La Pella, Berkeley, CA, and Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1999
"Music-at-Noon" series: Cuban Dance Performance Santa Clam University
TEACHING FIELDS:
Modern Dance: Cuban modem technique (based on Graham, Cunningham, Dunham and Limon techniques)
Folkloric Dances: Cuban-Haitian Folklore (VodiI, Mason, Gaga, lbo, Congolaye, Tumba Francesa, Dahomey), Yoruba traditions (dances of the orishas), RegIa Congo (palo), Carabali, Ia Conga, Chancletas
Popular Dances: Son, Salsa/Casino, Rumba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Mambo, Cuban and Haitian merengue, Pilon
Musician: percussionist (tumbadora and bata drums)
TEACHING AND CHOREOGRAPHING EXPERIENCE:
2009-2010
African American Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2007
Master Class, 11th Annual Exploration in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum, Humbolt University, Acadia CA
Master Class, Black Choreographer Festival, San Francisco, CA
Guest Choreographer, Cuban Spirit, City College, San Diego, CA
2005
Guest Artist Residence, Cal State University, San Marcos, CA
2002-2003
Weekly classes in modem and folkloric dance at Rhythm and Motion, Citicentre Dance Theatre and Dance Mission studios
Weekly classes in Caribbean Dances at Everett Middle School and Synergy High School
2002
Afro-Cuban Dance Workshops sponsored by the World Dance Office, Portland State University
"Inside Out;" Choreography commissioned by ODC Dance Jam, a youth dance company
"Mosaico Haitiano; " Choreography commissioned by Ire lie
ODC/San Francisco three-week residency at the University of Hawaii, Hilo as part of the Hawaii Concert series
"Mambo;" Choreography commissioned by the Oakland Blues Organization
Artistic Director, Emese, Messengers of the African Diaspora
1999-2001
Taught weekly class in Cuban and Haitian folkloric dance at Citicentre Dance Theatre, Oakland, CA
Quarterly master classes in Cuban Folkloric and Popular Dance, Dance Arts Academy, Los Angeles, CA
June 2000
ODC/San Francisco three-week residency at the University of Florida, Gainesville;
Taught master classes in modem technique and Afro-Cuban dance to UF dance majors
May 2000
Taught week-long seminar on Cuban modem technique Department of Dance, Santa Clara University
1998-1999
Taught master classes in the Department of Dance, Stanford University;
Commissioned to choreograph "Chancletas" piece and "Son" piece for the Stanford student dance company Los Decanos and Haitian piece for Kuumba Dance Group
Taught weekly class in Cuban-Haitian folkloric dance at Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA
1998
Taught master classes in Latin American Popular Dance and Cuban Haitian Folklore at San Francisco City College and Foothill College
Taught weekly classes in Afro-Cuban folkloric dance and salsa at the Mountain View-Los Altos Adult Education Program
Taught bi-weekly class in salsa and master classes in Cuban-Haitian folklore at the Cubberly Community Center, Palo Alto
1995-1998
Professor of Folklore and Modem Dance technique for the dancers of Cutumba
FELLOWSHIPS
Peninsula Community Foundation grant initiative to teach weekly classes at the Girls Club, East Palo Alto, CA
Designated an Artist-in-Residence Fellow, California Arts Council (declined)
FESTIVALS AND COMPETITIONS:
1995 to present
CubaCaribe Festival, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
Florida Festival of Dance, Miami Florida
Dance West, Western United States platfonn of the Seventh Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Los Angeles, CA
Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, Cadiz, Spain
Performances in Lanzarote, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Festival lnternacional de Danza, Camaguey, Cuba
Festival del Son Miguel Matamoros, Santiago de Cuba
CUBADISCO, Havana, Cuba
REFERENCES:
Patriceann Mead, Director of the Afro-Cuban and Bracilian Drum and Dance Ensamble at Palomar College, San Marco.760-***-****
Brenda Way, Founder and Artistic Director, ODC/San Fr.mcisco 415-***-****
Susan Cashion, Director of the Dance Division, Stanford University 650-***-**** Elizabeth Chin, Department of Anthropology, Occidental College 323-***-****
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