AMELIA ROSE ESTRADA

Amelia Rose Estrada is a queer, Dominican-Cuban-Jewish performance maker and scholar. She is interested in crafting work that speaks to Latinidad, gender, queerness, and intergenerational ancestral relationality. Her work draws on methods from dance, performance art, and theater. Her choreography has been presented at University Settlement in NYC, SPACE in Portland, Maine, the Spark Theater Festival NYC, and at Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza in Rosario, Argentina, among others. As a theater creative, Amelia co-choreographed CarmXn, a modern adaptation of the opera Carmen with Hogfish Maine, was the associate choreographer for Moonbox’s production of Sweeney Todd, and co-directed and choreographed the musical adaptation of Twelfth Night at Tufts University. Amelia also makes lesbian dance theater with her artistic partner, Elle Jansen, under the company name MELLE. Favorite performance credits include A Dance For You and Me with Eventual Dance Company, CarmXn with Hogfish, Romeo and Juliet with Brian Sanders and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Dancing Dead with Brian Sanders JUNK.

In addition to her work as an artist, Amelia is a PhD candidate in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on how dance participates in the cultural, racial, and national imaginary of Dominicanidad both in the Dominican Republic and diaspora. Her article “Dancing Migration: Trespassing, Borders, and Precarious Crossings in Silvana Cardell’s Supper, People on the Move” was published in the Routledge Companion for Latinx Theater and Performance and she has a forthcoming co-authored article titled “Conditions of Undress: dancing in lo sucio” in the anthology Queer Hopes and Futures. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Swarthmore College and holds an M.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Tufts University.