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Moving Through the Intersections:
Latinx Disabled Artists in Focus
As a part of our on-going "Let's Talk About It" community dialogues, DHPCo's Latinx Hispanic Dancers United initiative presents a national roundtable centering and celebrating Latinx Dance Artists with Disabilities. In this conversation, moderated by Mark Travis Rivera, we will hear directly from four artists who are making their mark in the professional U.S. dance field. The artists will speak about their artistic journeys and will share how they include and navigate intersectional identities culturally, in the field, in their own work, and the jobs/positions they take on. Lastly, the conversation will be open to the larger community via a moderated Q&A following their conversation.
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Join us for this important and needed conversation!
Registration required.
Featured Speakers:
Mark Travis Rivera, Moderator (Atlanta)
Vanessa Cruz (Los Angeles)
Kayla Maria G. (New York)
JanpiStar (Oakland)
FREE
October 23, 2025
5:00pm PST (8pm EST)
FREE via Zoom
Latinx Movement Festival - Washington D.C.
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Our very own David Herrera moderates a Latinx Hispanic Dancers United conversation with the festival artists on Saturday, August 3, 1-2pm.
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The weekend was filled with dance classes, talkbacks, and live performances with themes centering on bi-national identity, immigrant narratives, identity politics, gender, and queerness within the Latinx/e viewpoint.
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Festival artists included Amelia Estrada, Primera Generación Dance Collective, Hector Jaime and Xochipili Dance Company, Chachi Perez's Carne Viva Dance Theatre, Angel Ramirez, Tabata Vara, and Gabriel Mata
LHDU x David Herrera Performance Company x PARA.MAR Dance Theatre team up in Chicago for the exciting show MONOLITH, a weekend of world premieres. Featuring 4 Latinx/e choreographers, including Stephanie Martinez director of PARA.MAR (and one of the choreographers of DHPCo's Órale!), Beatriz García Diáz, Xavier Nuñez, and Bryan Arias.
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David will moderate 2 talkbacks with the choreographers Friday, May 24 (after the performance), and Saturday, May 25 (after the matinee).
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These conversations will discuss the topics of Latinx representation in the professional concert dance field, how shared and individual identities can impact the work they create and share with large multicultural audiences, how as a community they can provide opportunity for each other, and how the choreographers approached the concept of MONOLITH.
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May 24 & 25, 2024
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Countertechnique Master Class &
Rep Workshop co-presented by ODC Theater
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Join us as for a Countertechnique master class and movement workshop taught by USC Assistant Professor of Dance, and Latinx Hispanic Dancers United member, Rosanna Tavarez and rep from Bay Area artist Bianca Cabrera from her work "Fever Dreams". Rosanna's work is also being presented at ODC theater on June 2, 2022 as part of their "State of Play" festival.
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Saturday November 12, 2022
11:00am-3:00PM
ODC Theater
RSVP REQUIRED
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Let's Talk About It:
The Immigrant Experience and
U.S. Contemporary Dance
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Join Latinx Hispanic Dancers United for our virtual panel discussion, Let's Talk About It: The Immigrant Experience & U.S. Contemporary Dance. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (Cornell University) and will feature guest speakers Liliana Gomez (Phoenix), Gabriel Mata (Bay Area/Washington D.C.), and Wilfredo Rivera (Chicago).
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Wednesday September 28, 2022
4pm (PST)
RSVP Required
Free
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Moving Forward Together: Salt Lake City
Join us to discuss the experience of being a dancemaker in Salt Lake City with a focus on dance making along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines in the region moderated by Stephanie Garcia and co-hosted by LHDU and loveDANCEmore and featuring artists Fausto Rivera, Fanny Blauer, Karina Villalba, Paola Cespedez Caba.
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Sunday September 25, 2023
SpyHop Rooftop
Salt Lake City
Free
Moving Forward Together - Bay Area
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Join us for a moderated conversation with Bay Area intersectional Latinx artists Karla Quintero, Javier Stell-Fresquez, Andreína Maldonado, and Kathryn Florez.
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- What cultural shifts do we see or are a part of in the Bay Area Dance scene?
- How can we continue to unify and uplift each other in our region and across the country?
- In what new ways can we collaborate, support, and include others within our own work and missions?
August 25, 2022 @ 7pm
FREE, Open to All
Joe Goode Annex, SF
RSVP HERE