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A Space to Explore & Reflect
DESCUBRIENDO LATINX
An open-access online repository, Descubriendo Latinx builds upon the frameworks laid out in the recently published article in the Journal of Dance Education, Solidarities of the Marginalized as Anti-racist Dance Pedagogy: Reflections on Collaborative Advocacy from Dance Educators with Connective Marginalities, co-authored by Dr. Alfdaniels Mabingo, Kiri Avelar, Dr. Ruohan Chen, and Franchesca M. Cabrera. This central writing está plasmado through this site, framing and giving movement to the exploration of rhizomatic teaching and learning of worlds in interdependence to challenge and reimagine dance history pedagogy, curriculum, and scholarship in historical and contemporary contexts.
Testimonio
Witness testimonios of dance students, teachers, scholars, authors, and creatives
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Translanguaging, Multilingual Ecologies, Translations
Readings & Lesson Plans
Chicana/Latina Feminist Epistemologies
Scholarly Texts & Praxis
Dance Histories of the Americas, Transnational American Modern Dancemakers
Readings & Films
Border Theory, Fronteriza Dance Making
Text, Film, Platforms
Testimonio & Plática
Pedagogy & Research Methodology Applications
Screendance, Film, Photo Essay, Visual Art, Choreography
Interdisciplinary Tools for Creative Practice Application
Pedagogies of the Home, Theories of the Flesh
Podcasts, Platforms, Readings, & Lesson Plans
Pluriverse Politics, Epistemologies of the South, Rhizomatic Teaching & Learning
Readings & Viewings
Plática
 Una Respuesta: Doris Humphrey's "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" restaged for a Spanish DancerA collaboration with artists Sandra Rivera and Michael Rivera, the employment of matador postures and Spanish dance movement principles in Doris Humphrey's "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (1949) are embodied through a Spanish Dance lens. |  quienes somos |  Descubriendo Latinx through Testimonio |
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 Una Respuesta: Lester Horton's "The Park" - A Photo Essay By Kiri Avelar (2020)A collaboration with artist Kennyth Montes de Oca, this black and white photo essay is a creative response to American modern dance choreographer Lester Horton’s "The Park" (1950), his political statement on police brutality against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, sparked by the Sleepy Lagoon murder case of 1942. |  Una Respuesta: Martha Graham's "El Penitente" - A Film By Kiri Avelar (2020)In collaboration with artists Isabella Vergara and Sandra Rivera, this screendance explores the embodiment of religious sect ritual of the Southwestern United States, as seen in Martha Graham's "El Penitente" (1946). |  Una Respuesta: José Limón's "Tonantzintla" - A Film By Kiri Avelar (2020)Bringing the photographic archive to life, this film is a creative interdisciplinary response to José Limón's "Tonantzintla" (1951), a conversation with diasporic iconography, soundscapes, and site specific framing, in collaboration with artist Franchesca Marisol Cabrera. |
 Mestiza Consciousness |  Una Respuesta: Katherine Dunham's "Veracruzana" - A Film By Kiri Avelar (2020)A collaboration with artists Jessica Featherson and Franchesca Marisol Cabrera, this screendance explores the fusion of Katherine Dunham's "Veracruzana" (1949). |  Una Respuesta: Katherine Dunham's "Veracruzana" - A Film By Kiri Avelar (2020)A collaboration with artists Jessica Featherson and Franchesca Marisol Cabrera, this screendance explores the fusion of Katherine Dunham's "Veracruzana" (1949). |
 Una Respuesta: Lester Horton's "The Park" - A Photo Essay By Kiri Avelar (2020)A collaboration with artist Kennyth Montes de Oca, this black and white photo essay is a creative response to American modern dance choreographer Lester Horton’s "The Park" (1950), his political statement on police brutality against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, sparked by the Sleepy Lagoon murder case of 1942. |  Una Respuesta: Lester Horton's "The Park" - A Photo Essay By Kiri Avelar (2020)A collaboration with artist Kennyth Montes de Oca, this black and white photo essay is a creative response to American modern dance choreographer Lester Horton’s "The Park" (1950), his political statement on police brutality against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, sparked by the Sleepy Lagoon murder case of 1942. |  Ruido |
 Una Respuesta: José Limón's "Tonantzintla" - A Film By Kiri Avelar (2020)Bringing the photographic archive to life, this film is a creative interdisciplinary response to José Limón's "Tonantzintla" (1951), a conversation with diasporic iconography, soundscapes, and site specific framing, in collaboration with artist Franchesca Marisol Cabrera. |
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