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Minerva Tapia: Performance in the Wake

The graduate student research group Performance in the wake warmly invites you to our series of public events on the topic of “Territories” this Fall. Throughout 2020-21, we study contemporary Ibero-American performances in the wake of the political for they provide us with theories, methods, contestations of the political today. Please join us at https://uci.zoom.us/j/98240135723 for our public events and contact gpare@uci.edu for any questions or suggestions, as well as for preparatory materials.

This October 15th, 5pm PST, join us for our first event with choreographer and critic Minerva Tapia. In our first event, we ask: How does danza fronteriza provide us with a method to think (from) the border? With exclusive insights into Tapia’s recent choreographies, we discuss this “border-thought” with the artist.

Minerva Tapia is a Mexican-American choreographer, educator and company director of the Minerva Tapia Dance Group since 1995. Tapia received her Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies in 2014 at UCR. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at the UCI in 2006, and in 1986 she received her B.A. at the Escuela de Danza Gloria Campobello in Tijuana, Mexico. She has honed her art in Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brazil, Canada, Turkey, and in Cuba. Her work has been presented at renowned spaces across the U.S. and globally. Among her most notable choreographies are Borderline Bodies, Juana’s Little Machine, Flaquita, and Ellas danzan solas / Illegal Border.

This is co-sponsored by UCHRI and UCI LASC