Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement. McFarland Press, 2012.
“Christina Bernal, 1945-2016.” Dance Magazine, June 7, 2017.
“The Dancer’s Guide to Cuba” Dance Magazine, May 31, 2016.
“Narciso Medina,” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Ramiro Guerra, the father of Cuban Modern Dance,” Routledge
Online Encyclopedia of Modernism. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2016.
Signature dance works with original musical scores include L’Dor V’Dor, Wall of Babel, BarrigaBestia, and the evening-length Sh’Ma. These dances have been produced in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.
I was interviewed about Native American dance, and appear briefly in the film Veiled Lightning, produced by Jaima Chevalier. The film premiered January 12, 2017 at the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
My original choreodrama, Havana Love Letters (Cartas de Amor), was performed in Havana at the Bertolt Brecht Theater on June 3 and 4, 2016. Excerpts were performed in New York City at CAP 21 and by Dance TCU students. This work was the result of a collaboration between myself, composer Joel Diamond, TCU designers Murell Horton, Roma Flowers, and Brian Clinnin, and Cuba’s renown National School of Art (ENA) and Institute of the Arts (ISA).
Coleman Fellow
TCU Honors Faculty Fellow
First international adjudicator for Danzandos Festival, Matanzas, Cuba, 2016.
Founder, Cuban Arts Match
Altruvistas Journeys, associate and consultant on dance Advisory Board of US-Cuba Cultural Exchange
Adjudicator for Danzandos Festival, Matanzas, Cuba
Society of Dance History Scholars
Council on Research on Dance
Corps de Ballet International
Centre Internacional de la Danse – UNESCO
Oxford University Press, I blind-reviewed a book proposal: “Staging the Body Politic: The Cuban Revolution in Ballet;”
For Dance Research Journal, I peer-reviewed an article submission: “Cuban Ballet and the New Man.”
For Dance Research Journal, I peer-reviewed an article submission: “Cuban Ballet and the New Man.”
For the Getty Foundation, I peer-reviewed a grant application for a major Getty initiative, the performance festival, Pacific Standard Time/LA/LA.
The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County Music Center proposal that I reviewed was titled, Cuba then/and now.
Founder, Cuban Arts Match: matchmakers for the arts
Board Member: US – Cuba Cultural Exchange
