Autodidact, Polymath
» Escuela de Artes Plásticas Lucchetti / High School / 1970, San Juan, PR
» Universidad de Puerto Rico / 1970-1972, San Juan, PR
Calle San Rafael #1463, San Juan, PR 00909
Travessa Nova de Santos 34 r/c esq. 1200-735 Lisboa, Portugal
Mobile: +351 934 159153
Artistic Director, En Situ Danza
International vehicle for collaborative production www.afaltadepapel.info
1976 - Present
Dance: Performer, Choreographer, Teacher, Mentor, Producer
Postmodern, Experimental, Afri-Caribbean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILtV09mXa4Y&t=162s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqABCUoe5M
1990 - Present
Post dramatic theatre: Dramaturgy, Direction, Performance https://ensitudanza.wixsite.com/2021
1994 - Present
Somatic research, Expressive therapies
Creator, Practitioner, Facilitator of La Voz que Sana©mrm
Voice, sound, movement and improvisation for creation and healing https://://vimeo.com/102817998
2014 - Present
Screendance / Moving image https://vimeo.com/user33392597
International selection at present / Juana Caliente / Press Kit (Spanish)
1992 - 2011 / twenty editions
Storefront window dance installations
Produced, designed, choreographed and performed in: Houston, San Antonio, Santurce, Hato Rey, Puerto Nuevo, Londres, Mainz, Barcelona, Miami, Lisboa.
Selection of teaching/pedagogical experience
Dance: Technique, Improvisation, Repertoire, Movement analysis:
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Adjunct Professor / Houston Community College, TX 1985 - 1987
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Adjunct Professor / University of Houston, Central, TX 1987 - 1989
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Artist in Education/ Artist in Residency / Texas Commission on the Arts
1980 - 2000
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Multi Ethnic Counseling through the Arts (M.E.C.A.) Houston, TX 1988 - 2000
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Municipal School of Fine Arts, Carolina, PR 1996 - 2001
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Artist in Residence Taller Libertá, Mayagüez, PR Ad Vitam
Selection of Awards
● Choreographic Fellowship, Mid America Arts Alliance, Houston, TX / Testimonies and Legends: Voices for Dance and Harp, 1998
● Choreographic Fellowship, Diverse Works, Houston, TX / The Soft Dances, 2001
● Site-specific Choreographic Fellowship, Foundation for Architecture, SJ, PR / Cuestión de 7: Gira de Artevivo Santurcina, 2008
● Best experimental video / LAPSUS, Great Message International Film Festival, Pune, India, 2018
● Second prize, creative writing contest / UTOPIA / University of Lisbon / Faculty of Letters, 2019
● Site-specific choreographic fellowship, Mellon Foundation, Fundación para las Artes Flamboyán, Puerto Rican Alliance of Museums, INIM (Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of PR).
Trilogía site-specific de la performance/instalación Los frutos del amor
Códices contemporáneos de la esencia africana en la danza caribeña
Collaborating author Félix J. Rivera
Excerpts:
amor es amor - Jardín de la Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, Río Piedras
https://ensitudanza.wixsite.com/islove
amor es sombra - Anfiteatro Julia de Burgos, Universidad de PR, Río Piedras
amor sale - Taller Libertá, Mayagüez
