Artist Statement
I learned to dance merengue in the kitchen with my Dominican grandmother. I listened to her hips absorbing the rhythm and choreographic pattern without any need for verbal communication. These dances taught me about the intimacies of bodies, culture, and politics. As a mixed Dominican-Cuban-Jewish queer woman living in the US, memories like this are core to my identity. I create performances that draw on methodologies from dance, performance art, and theater. Guided by women of color feminism I look to alternative archives—our kitchens, our ancestors, our communities, and our flesh—as places of creation. I see performance as a tool to reimagine forgotten and untold histories. As an artist-scholar, I am intent on exploring how art functions as a lens to understand socio-political issues and allows us to imagine more just, liberatory futures.