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The Mixed Race Latinx Experience in Performance Spaces
What does it mean to inhabit a body shaped by multiple racial and cultural histories, particularly when those histories include colonization, enslavement, racial violence, cultural erasure, and resistance? And how do those histories live in our bodies, our dancing, and the ways we understand ourselves?
Join moderator Alicia Nascimento Castro @nascimentoalicia and speakers Tainah Damasceno (Director of BrasArte), Samuel Hobbs (Director of push/Fold), and Tori Cristi (Director of Whacking LA) for a conversation exploring the complexities of the mixed-race Latinx experience through the lens of dance, identity, and culture.
Together, they will examine:
● Identity and belonging
● Historical inheritance
● Whiteness and privilege
● The body as an archive of lived experience
● Ancestry and biological inheritance
● Our responsibilities as artists
● New possibilities for freedom, connection, and belonging
Through shared perspectives and lived experiences, we will explore how history shapes who we are, how it lives in our bodies and artistic practices, and how we can embrace the contradictions of our identities while imagining new possibilities for freedom, connection, and belonging.
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time: 5pm PT (8pm ET)
Where: Zoom
FREE
Registration Required
Cross-Network Connect:
Latinidad in Dance
presented by Dance/USA
Join Dance/USA for a Cross-Network Connect celebrating Latinidad in dance. Panelists David Herrera, Gabriel Mata, Vanessa Hernández Cruz, and Wilfredo Rivera will discuss the contributions Latine dance artists have made to the field in the United States and the challenges they continue to face, including visibility, access to funding, and the work of sustaining practices rooted in culture, community, and lived experience. Come ready to engage, ask questions, and connect with colleagues across the nation who are invested in a more inclusive and equitable future for dance.
When: Wednesday, October 28
12pm PST | 3 pm EST
Via Zoom
Register: https://member.danceusa.org/events/cross-network-connect-latinidad-in-dance/register
Moving Through the Intersections:
Latinx Disabled Artists in Focus
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
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.
El Salóncito 2025: A Latinx Heritage
Showcase and Celebration
Saturday October 11, 2025
DHPCo. and Shawl Anderson Dance Center (SADC) collaborate to celebrate the vibrancy of the Bay Area's Latinx dance community during National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 through October 15). This year "El Saloncito" grows to include a movement workshop, DJ dance party, and Taco truck !
Performances will include a variety of forms, including contemporary, Afro Brazilian dance, whacking, and popping. Immerse yourself in the festive spirit with delicious refreshments and a joyous post-show fiesta. Tacos La Patrona will start serving at 6:30pm! Then catch a dance lesson with Valerie Mendez, enjoy the performances, and stay for the dance party!
Dance Work by:
Hector Jaime / Xochipilli Dance Company
Bianca Cabrera / Blind Tiger Society
Tainah Harvey / BrasArte
Elizabeth Zepeda
Karla Flores
Nico Maimon & Annalise Carrillo Constantz
Bachata class by Valerie Mendez
October 11, 2025
Saturday
6:30pm
Where:
Parker Electric
221 Washington Street
Oakland, CA 94607
TICKETS:
$15-20, limited FREE "No one turned away for lack of funds"
Please purchase on the link above, including the NOTAFLOF
Choreofest 2025
presented by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and curated by DHPCo. and
PUSH Dance Company.
Join us on as we celebrate the YBGF's 9th annual "Choreofest". This marks the third season DHPCo. and PUSH Dance Company curate the festival, presenting the Bay Areas most diverse dance companies and artists.
On July 26 DHPCo. premieres "Colorized Point" and exploration of geography, geometry, flora and fauna. Featuring Kyle Limin, Emma André, and Josue Villeda and costumes by Rogelio Lopez.
FREE ADMISSION
Saturdays July 19 & 26
1pm
Yerba Buena Gardens
750 Howard St.
San Francisco, CA
2025 line-up includes:
DHPCo.
In Lak'ech - Queer Salsa & Bachata
Kyle Limin
Poster design: by Olivia Ting
For more information visit:
Day 1: https://ybgfestival.org/event/ybg-choreofest-2025-day-one/
Day 2: https://ybgfestival.org/event/ybg-choreofest-2025-day-two/
DHPCo. and Shawl Anderson Dance Center (SADC) collaborate to celebrate the vibrancy of the Bay Area's Latinx dance community during
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 through October 15).
September 28, 2024
5pm & 7:30pm
Shawl Anderson Dance Center, Studi 1.
Please join use for El Salóncito: Latinx Dance & Heritage Showcase Celebration. This evening will feature pieces by Jocelyn Reyes, Rogelio Lopez, Andrea Rodriguez, gizeh muñiz vengel, and Bianca Cabrera.
“David Herrera Performance Company seeks to honor our Latina/e/o/x communities and also invite fellow artists to answer the question ‘What does it mean to perform Latinidad?’"
Get your tickets today! BUY HERE
ASL interpretation is available per request.
El Salóncito: A Latinx & Heritage Showcase Celebration
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Latinx Movement Festival - Washington D.C.
Our very own David Herrera attended the inaugural festival and moderated a Latinx Hispanic Dancers United conversation with the festival artists on Saturday, August 3, 1-2pm.
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.
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.
More info: https://www.gabrielmatamovement.com/lmf2024
Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest 2024 is back on July 13 and 20, 2024 with two thrilling days of site-specific dance performance. The two-day festival highlights the strength, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area dance scene. Free, outdoors, ADA accessible and ASL interpretation provided.
Presented by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
Curated by Ashley Gayle, David Herrera and Raissa Simpson.
Dates: Saturdays, July 13 & 20, 1pm
Venue: Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
Cost: Free
Schedule:
Saturday, July 13, 1pm:
- David Herrera Performance Company
- pateldanceworks
- The Turf Feinz
- OYSTERKNIFE
Accessibility: Route is ADA accessible, ASL Interpretation will be provided.
Know Before You Go:
- Each program day moves to four different locations in the Gardens, spanning approx. 1 city block or .5 miles
- Event staff and volunteers will direct the audience to each location
- Seating at each site is very limited and prioritized for seniors and those with disabilities
- Each performance is about 15-20 minutes in length
- ASL interpretation is provided on both days
- For accessibility questions, contact info@ybgfestival.org or (415) 543-1718
YBG Festival: www.ybgfestival.org
July 13: https://ybgfestival.org/event/ybg-choreofest-2024-day-one/
July 20: https://ybgfestival.org/event/ybg-choreofest-2024-day-two/
Saturday, July 20, 1pm:
- Rogelio Lopez & Dancers
- Siddhi Creative
- PUSH Dance Company
- Diamano Coura
West African Dance Company
LHDU x David Herrera 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.
David will moderate 2 talkbacks with the choreographers Friday, May 24 (after the performance), and Saturday, May 25 (after the matinee).
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.
Learn more about the choreographers & get tickets here --> https://www.paramardance.com/monolith
Join the Queering Cultural Forms teaching artists Rogelio Lopez, VERA!/Vera Hannush, SNJV, and Dr. Uzo Nwankpa as they discuss the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people in cultural dance forms and what ways dancers and cultural dance practitioners can support each other in bringing their full selves to the dances. Join us as we begin to dream of what the future of our cultural dance forms can look like when they are welcome to everyone. Stick around for an open Q&A session and time for mingling and stacks!
Moderated by David Herrera.
This is event is free and open to all!
RSVPs are appreciated but not required.
Access Information:
This panel will have live ASL Interpretation
BANDALOOP Studios is a wheelchair accessible space.
Bathrooms are gender-neutral and single stall and ADA-accessible
Masks are required for attendees. Panelists will have taken a same-day covid test and will be unmasked.
YERBA BUENA GARDENS
"CHOREOFEST"
Saturdays
September 23 & 30
1PM-3PM
FREE
A two-weekend festival of site-specific work, the Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest showcases the extravagant creativity, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area dance scene. Programmed by RAWdance for its first five years, YBG ChoreoFest opens a new chapter co-curated by David Herrera Performance Company (Artistic Director David Herrera) and PUSH Dance Company (Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and Associate Artistic Director Ashley Gayle). Presented by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
ÓRALE!
Co-presented by Z Space
September 7-9, 2023
Z Space
San Francisco, CA
$20-75
Featuring the choreography by 6 leading national Latinx dance artists Alfonso Cervera (Los Angeles & Ohio), Eric Garcia (San Francisco), David Herrera (San Francisco), Stephanie Martinez (Chicago, IL), Gabriel Mata (Washington D.C.), and Yvonne Montoya (Tucson, AZ) and the
live music by Chicano living legend El Vez (Robert Lopez) and the Memphis Mariachis, DHPCo. creates a magical and explosive contemporary dance experience of Latinx/e celebration!
Rambunctious, lucid, and celebratory, a mix between dream and reality, encompassing all things Latinx! Part dance, part rock concert, part cabaret, part circus....it's a spectacle of grandiosity. Touching on the lived realities and complexities of a diverse Latinx/e community in a multi-cultural U.S. society, from Immigrants to "Pochos" , and everyone in between, Órale is sure to bring a smile to your face, make you want to groove in your seat, and brings you closer to understanding the vibrancy and richness Latinx/e communities bring to American culture!
Órale! also features a multi-cultural cast of 10 of the Bay Area's best dancers.
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MOVEMENT WORKSHOP W/
ROSANNA TAVAREZ & BIANCA CABREREA
DHPCo. and Latinx Hispanic Dancers United (LDHU) are Co-presenting, along with ODC Theater, a Workshop by two amazing Latinx, women choreographers Rosanna Tavarez and Bianca Cabrera. LHDU is a national initiative that invests in and mobilizes Latinx/e/a/o and Hispanic dance artists in our immediate region and across the country.
Join Rosanna Tavarez (Los Angeles) and Bianca Cabrera (Oakland) for an afternoon of dance! Rosanna will lead a short Countertechnique warm-up to get everyone started, and then dancers will learn luscious choreography from Rosanna's Piece x Piece and Bianca's Fever Dreams.
November 12, 11am-3pm
ODC Theater, San Francisco
FREE + RSVP required
LHDU is Partially supported by the California Arts Council and San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Let's Talk About It:
The Immigrant Experience &
U.S. Contemporary Dance
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 Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (Cornell University) and will feature guest speakers Liliana Gomez, Gabriel Mata, and Wilfredo Rivera.
Items of discussion include artmaking and citizenship, immigrant aesthetics and themes, language, and examining how the U.S. dance field includes or excludes these narratives. This discussion event is open to all self-identifying Latinx/e/o/a and Hispanic dance artists.
Wednesday September 28, 2022
Virutal / Zoom Webinar
Partially supported by the California Arts Council and San Francisco Arts Commission.
New Date: August 25th, 2022
Join us for a moderated conversation with Bay Area intersectional Latinx artists Karla Quintero, Javier Stell-Fresquez, Andreína Maldonado, and Kathryn Florez.
- 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?
Date: Thursday August 25, 2022
FREE, Open to All
7pm
Joe Goode Annex, SF
Covid Protocols: Masks are required for all guests.. Proof of Vaccination or Neg. Covid test within 48hrs.
Partially supported by the California Arts Council and San Francisco Arts Commission.
Seeking dancers for our 2022/23 Season
Our newest season features a full-evening production in collaboration with musical legend El Vez (Robert Lopez) and 7 national Latinx/e choreographers. Guest choreographers include: Alfonso Cervera, Eric Garcia, Stephanie Martinez, Gabriel Mata, Yvonne Montoya, and David Herrera.
Dancers should have a background in contemporary, modern, improvisation, contact and/or Latin/Afro social dance forms. Dancers should be comfortable in a collaborative, movement generating environment. We highly encourage dancers of Latinx/e/o/a and POC backgrounds. We are also accepting virtual auditions via our registration form for those who cannot attend the live auditions.
Saturday August 6, 2022
11am-1:30pm
Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco