How to Make it to the Dance Floor: A Salsa Guide for Women

A staged reading of a play by IAS Fellow Cindy Garcia and dramaturg Lucy Burns. People of all dance and acting skill levels are invited to participate in the dance section and/or the reading of the script! Please contact Cindy Garcia (cgarcia@umn.edu) by Monday, November 9 to get involved. It will be important to attend all the dance and/or script reading rehearsals as well as the performance.

Dance Rehearsals will be in the Crosby Seminar Room.

Friday, Nov. 13, 6:30-8:30pm

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2-4pm

Sunday, Nov. 15, 10am-12pm

Script Reading Rehearsals will be in Nolte 125.

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 5-7pm

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 6-8pm

Performance:

Thursday, Nov. 19, at 4pm

Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s Asian American Studies Department. She is the author of Puro Arte: On the Filipino Performing Body, published by NYU Press. Current inquiries include representations of the future in performance through the figure of the robot, and “commonwealth” as an American identity. Burns is also a dramaturg, whose recent collaborations include David Rousseve’s Stardust, and R. Zamora Linmark’s But, Beautiful, and TeAda Productions’ Global Taxi Driver. She has participated in several projects focusing on Asian American theater and performance, including attending the 2007 World Social Forum as a member of a U.S. artist delegation and as a reviewer for the National Asian American Theater Festival (2009, 2011). 

Cindy García is an Associate Professor, dance theorist, performance ethnographer, and playwright in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. Her book Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles (Duke UP 2013) addresses the politics of social performances of Mexican-ness, latinidad, and migration in Los Angeles salsa clubs. Her research and teaching interests include the cultural politics of migration, race, and racialization, feminist ethnography, Chicana/o and Latin/o American Performance Studies, and the gendered performances of latinidad in urban libidinal economies.

This event is cosponsored by the Immigration History Research Center and the Departments of Asian American Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, Gender Women and Sexuality Studies, and Theatre Arts and Dance.