I am a dancer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural organizer. My aesthetic is quirky, queer, “spanglish,” Boricua, urban, nerdy and working class.

I grew up building altars, listening to and making up stories that straddle "real" and unseen worlds, and watching formal and informal ritual work. I am a child of street dance. These practices shape my world view and style. In pandemic times, I have brought my dance practice back outdoors.

I am a former Dancing Futures and Skylab Artist in Residence, and a Brooklyn Arts Fund and NYFA Bridge Fund Recipient. I have danced with Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, MBDance, Renegade Performance Group, K. Hamilton Productions, and the NWA Project. My current work is a constellation of interactive pieces within the crowning world, the latest of which is crowning in october (or how to change shape while remembering your name).

PROJECT: CROWNING IN OCTOBER, OR HOW TO CHANGE SHAPE WHILE REMEMBERING YOUR NAME…

…is a traveling multimedia dance installation in the streets of wild, urban, rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. crowning in october asks participants to use multimedia technology to explore and drop into the city scape, tracing the polluted Gowanus canal (through a formerly industrial and then working class Black and Latinx working class, now rapidly gentrifying neighborhood) back to open waters. Think Pokemon Go meets dance scavenger hunt meets socially distanced community gathering in pandemic times.

Each person follows one of four character paths—GATITO, SUGAR, SLINGSHOT or RUST.

www.crowninginoctober.com