Further Information:
- Grant & Scholorships
- Publications
- Conferences Presentations/Performance Papers Conferences
- Performances Experience
- Languages
- Honors & Awards
Grants & Scholarships:
2005/06:
Graduate Division, UCR, UC Office of President Diversity Dissertation Year Fellowship
2004:
Graduate Division, UCR, Conference Mini-Grant, (Con Cuba en la Distancia, Cádiz, Spain 11/2004)
2001:
Humanities Research Grant, UCR $ 1,500
2002:
Graduate Division, UCR, Conference Mini-Grant, $600 (Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, 6/2004)
2003:
Graduate Division, UCR, Conference Mini-Grant, $500: Black Performativity Conference, 4/2004
2003:
Graduate Division, UCR, Conference Mini-Grant, $675 : Orisha World Congress Conference in Cuba , 7/2003
2003:
Women's Studies, University of California , Riverside : Women in Coalition Grant $250
2003:
Department of Dance, UC Riverside: $1000 grant in recognition of my academic progress
2001-2004:
Dean's Fellowship, Dept. of Dance, UC Riverside: 4 years of tuition and fees
Publications:
“Hip Work: Un-doing the Tragic Mulata” requested for Black Performance Theory , Anita González (SUNY-New Paltz) and Thomas DeFrantz (MIT), co-editors
“The Mulata Performances of Ninon Sevilla” forthcoming in The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, co-editors
“Hips, Hip-notism, Hip(g)nosis: The Mulata Performance of Ninon Sevilla” forthcoming in Women & Performance special issue “Sensualidades: Latina/o Sensuality in Music and Movement,” November 2008. Alicia Arrizón (UCR, Women's Studies) and Deborah R. Vargas (UCI, Chicano/Latino Studies), co-editors
“El ritmo de la azúcar” in ¡Ay, qué rico! El sexo en la literatura cubana . María Luisa Ochoa, ed., Cádiz: Aduana Vieja, 2005.
“Lucy Guerin's The Ends of Things ” SDHS Conference Proceedings , 2004.
Book Reviews:
“Performing Josephine Baker” Josephine Baker in Life: The Image and the Icon by Bennetta Jules-Rossette, forthcoming in November 2008 of Dance Chronicle.
Conference Presentations/Performance Papers Conferences:
2008:
Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs , New York
2008:
“Hips, Hip-notism, Hip(g)nosis: The Mulata Performances of Ninón Sevilla,” Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance in and on the Caribbean, Tulane University , New Orleans
2007:
“Hip Responses: The Dancing Mulata in the Mexican Cabaretera Film Mulata ,”Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference, Paris , France
2006:
“The Mulatticized Body” International Conference on Caribbean Studies, Pan-American University, Texas
2006:
“The Venerated One: A (Hi)Story of the Cuban Mulata and her Holy Hips¨ ATHE/WTP Panels, Chicago
2006:
“The Mulatticized Body” Dance Colloquium, UC Riverside
2005:
“The Venerated One: A (Hi)Story of the Cuban Mulata and her Holy Hips” Dance 280 Colloquium, UC Riverside
2005:
“Maps, Mulattas, and A Maelstrom: A (His)Story of Cuban Hips” Dance Under Construction Conference, UCLA
2005:
“Sugar, Mulattas, and Rhythm” (paper performance) PSi International, Brown University , Rhode Island
2004:
“El Ritmo de la Azúcar: Una Epistemología de la mulata cubana” (paper/performance) Con Cuba En La Distancia III, Cádiz, España
2004:
“Becomings and Belongings in Lucy Guerin's The Ends of Things ” Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Duke University , Durham , North Carolina
2004:
“Beggin' for a Piece of the Bubble: The Political Economy of the Butt” Association of English Graduate Student Conference, USC, Los Angeles , CA
2004:
“Spy Kids and the North/South Battle for Technology” Cal State Long Beach, Comparative Literature and Film Conference
2003:
“Sea, Moon, Salt Water Daughters” Performance. “Of Fans and Sweet Waters: Oshun in Cuban context” Performance/Paper. 8 th Annual Orisha World Congress, Havana , Cuba .
2003:
“Race, Space, Place and a Red Dress: Jennifer Lopez LIVE! In Puerto Rico ” Paper. The Association for Theater in Higher Education National Conference, Latino Focus Group . New York City . August 2.
2003:
Choreographing Words: Dance as Writing, Writing Dancing , Panel Convener, (Dis)junctions: Morphing the Written Word, Humanities Conference, UC Riverside, April 11.
2003:
“Undulations and Tragic Hip-ness: A Theoretical Performance on a Hip Revolution” Dance Under Construction Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, April 5.
2002:
“Race, Space, Place and a Red Dress: Jennifer Lopez LIVE! In Puerto Rico” Dance Under Construction Conference, UCR, Riverside , April 27.
Performance Experience:
2008:
“Mulata Madness,” solo show, MIT
2007:
MIT Dance Theater Ensemble, “Madness at Mokuba”
2005:
Annual Watts Tower , Day of the Drum Festival, October
2005:
Museum of Latin American Art , Long Beach CA “Valentine's Day Soirée”:
featured guest performer of danzón
2003:
8 th Annual Orisha World Congress, Havana , Cuba
2003:
Vagina Monologues, UC Riverside, Campus Campaign
2000 - 2002:
Principal Dancer in TumbaLA, an Afro-Cuban folkloric music and dance Group, Los Angeles , CA (various cultural events, universities, museums throughout Los Angeles area)
2000-present:
Afro Cuban Dancer/Cuban cabaret dancer
Languages:
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Italian
Honors & Awards:
2007 - 2008:
Martin Luther King Jr., Visiting Scholar Post-Doctoral Fellowship, MIT, Department of Music & Theatre Arts
2002/2003:
Research Assistantship, Susan L. Foster, “The Choreography of Political Protest” Theater Journal 55:3 (October 2003), 395-412
2003:
Research Assistantship, Anna B. Scott, “De/cipherin' Practices” conference, April 25-26.
2002:
Summer Dance Study Fellowship $200, UC Riverside
