020 Sip & Chat: David Herrera
06/26/24 • 70 min
Welcome back to LNXdance with your Co-Hosts, Marcus & Mari! Our guest for this episode is the inspiring David Herrera. We are so honored to share his story with you. Enjoy!
Learn More: www.dhperformance.org
Instagram: DHPC
Comparte el amor with our guest, and let us know your favorite part of this chat. We want to thank David for making this Sip & Chat happen and sharing his story with us!
David Herrera is a choreographer, producer, and community leader in San Francisco, California, whose work centers Latinx/e voices, aesthetics, and narratives through David Herrera Performance Company. He is also the Director of the Latinx Hispanic Dancers United initiative.
David grew up in Hollywood, CA influenced by his culturally diverse neighborhood and his Mexican and American heritages. He advocates to provide Latinx/e and BIPOC artists opportunities while challenging non-equitable practices in the modern dance field. In 2007, he launched David Herrera Performance Company to respond to the lack of Latinx visibility and representation. He has created over 30 works including evening-length productions ÒRALE!, The Tip of My Tongue, The Least of Them, TOUCH, and Slumber. His work has been presented at the Austin Dance Festival, Mix&Match Festival, ODC's Walking-Distance Festival, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, SJ Dance Company's "Choreoproject", and more.
David leads the national network Latinx Hispanic Dancers United, which serves the national Latinx/e/a/o dance community, and is the director and mentor of LatinXtensions, a 12-month mentorship program for emerging Latinx/e/a/o dance artists.
David is a recipient of the National Latino Arts & Culture Leadership Fellowship and Bridge Live Art’s Community Engagement Residency. In 2023, David was a Co-Curator for the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's "Choreofest". He served as advisor to the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, Isadora Duncan Awards Committee, and is a founding member of Dancing Around Race, a community program dedicated to the discussion and implementation of cultural equity in the dance sector led by Gerald Casel. David has also mentored homeless individuals through the Community Housing Partnership in SF. He serves as Deborah Slater's Studio 210 Residency mentor.
David holds B.A.s in American Studies
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Brought to you by MotionScoop Dance Corp, LNXdance Podcast is a series of conversations FOR Latinx dancers and educators BY Latinx dancers and educators. Join Mari & Marcus -M&M- as they dive deep into important topics in the dance industry and explore how being part of the Latinx community affects us, our contributions, decisions, and careers.
We hope you enjoy our sip and chat. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a comment with what you loved, questions, and topics for next time!
Follow us on our Instagram page, LNXdance, to interact with our community and with us.
For business inquiries and to apply to be a guest, please email [email protected]
¡Adiós!
Hosts: Marcus Mantilla-Valentin & Mari VasconezSponsors: MotionScoop Dance Corp.
Welcome back to LNXdance with your Co-Hosts, Marcus & Mari! Our guest for this episode is the inspiring David Herrera. We are so honored to share his story with you. Enjoy!
Learn More: www.dhperformance.org
Instagram: DHPC
Comparte el amor with our guest, and let us know your favorite part of this chat. We want to thank David for making this Sip & Chat happen and sharing his story with us!
David Herrera is a choreographer, producer, and community leader in San Francisco, California, whose work centers Latinx/e voices, aesthetics, and narratives through David Herrera Performance Company. He is also the Director of the Latinx Hispanic Dancers United initiative.
David grew up in Hollywood, CA influenced by his culturally diverse neighborhood and his Mexican and American heritages. He advocates to provide Latinx/e and BIPOC artists opportunities while challenging non-equitable practices in the modern dance field. In 2007, he launched David Herrera Performance Company to respond to the lack of Latinx visibility and representation. He has created over 30 works including evening-length productions ÒRALE!, The Tip of My Tongue, The Least of Them, TOUCH, and Slumber. His work has been presented at the Austin Dance Festival, Mix&Match Festival, ODC's Walking-Distance Festival, Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, SJ Dance Company's "Choreoproject", and more.
David leads the national network Latinx Hispanic Dancers United, which serves the national Latinx/e/a/o dance community, and is the director and mentor of LatinXtensions, a 12-month mentorship program for emerging Latinx/e/a/o dance artists.
David is a recipient of the National Latino Arts & Culture Leadership Fellowship and Bridge Live Art’s Community Engagement Residency. In 2023, David was a Co-Curator for the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's "Choreofest". He served as advisor to the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers, Isadora Duncan Awards Committee, and is a founding member of Dancing Around Race, a community program dedicated to the discussion and implementation of cultural equity in the dance sector led by Gerald Casel. David has also mentored homeless individuals through the Community Housing Partnership in SF. He serves as Deborah Slater's Studio 210 Residency mentor.
David holds B.A.s in American Studies
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Brought to you by MotionScoop Dance Corp, LNXdance Podcast is a series of conversations FOR Latinx dancers and educators BY Latinx dancers and educators. Join Mari & Marcus -M&M- as they dive deep into important topics in the dance industry and explore how being part of the Latinx community affects us, our contributions, decisions, and careers.
We hope you enjoy our sip and chat. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a comment with what you loved, questions, and topics for next time!
Follow us on our Instagram page, LNXdance, to interact with our community and with us.
For business inquiries and to apply to be a guest, please email [email protected]
¡Adiós!
Hosts: Marcus Mantilla-Valentin & Mari VasconezSponsors: MotionScoop Dance Corp.
Previous Episode
019 Sip & Chat: Natalia Mesa
Welcome back to LNXdance with your Co-Hosts, Marcus & Mari! Our guest for this episode is our wonderful and beautiful friend Natalia Mesa. We are so honored to share her story with you. Enjoy!
Natalia on IG: https://www.instagram.com/natalia.mesah/
Ballet Hispanico's Community Arts: https://www.ballethispanico.org/community/community-arts-partnerships
LXDEA: https://www.latinxdanceeducatorsalliance.com/
BAAND Together Festival: FREE Latin Social Class July 30th
https://lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city/dance-workshop-with-ballet-hispanico-194
Comparte el amor with our guest, and let us know your favorite part of this chat. We want to thank Natalia for making this Sip & Chat happen and sharing her story with us!
Natalia Mesa (Community Engagement Director) holds a master’s degree in performance arts administration from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial design with a minor in business administration from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. Her dance training started at Ballarte Escuela de Ballet and Ballet Anna Pavlova in Bogotá. Early in her dance career, she won an honorary mention on the V Encuentro para Estudiantes de Ballet, in Habana, Cuba, obtained a scholarship for the ballet program at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and later moved to New York where she completed her dance education at The Ailey School. Her experience in arts in education started at La Fundación Niños de Los Andes in Bogotá where she developed and implemented creative dance workshops with youth survivors of domestic violence. During her years working at Battery Dance, she managed the Battery Dance Festival, implemented arts in education programs into the New York public school system, and supported dance education programs in Latin America. In 2018, she was a panelist in support of 16 Days Against Gender-Based violence organized by RESIU within the U.S. State Department. Natalia recognizes the arts as a medium for social change that fosters dialogue, builds community, and changes misconceptions.
Natalia Mesa is currently the Community Engagement Director for Ballet Hispanico's Community Arts Partnerships d
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Brought to you by MotionScoop Dance Corp, LNXdance Podcast is a series of conversations FOR Latinx dancers and educators BY Latinx dancers and educators. Join Mari & Marcus -M&M- as they dive deep into important topics in the dance industry and explore how being part of the Latinx community affects us, our contributions, decisions, and careers.
We hope you enjoy our sip and chat. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a comment with what you loved, questions, and topics for next time!
Follow us on our Instagram page, LNXdance, to interact with our community and with us.
For business inquiries and to apply to be a guest, please email [email protected]
¡Adiós!
Hosts: Marcus Mantilla-Valentin & Mari VasconezSponsors: MotionScoop Dance Corp.
Next Episode
021 Sip & Chat: Tess Losada Miner
Welcome back to LNXdance with your Co-Hosts, Marcus & Mari! After a little break, we are excited to regresar with our next guest... the beautiful Tess Losada Miner. We are so honored to share her story with you. Enjoy!
Tess on IG: https://www.instagram.com/losadanza/
Tess' Website: https://losadatess.wixsite.com/dance
Tess Angelica Losada Miner is a Cuban-American dancer, choreographer, scholar, and educator currently working towards her MFA in Dance at Washington University in St. Louis. Tess’ research considers liminality, bicultural straddling, and how identity is shaped by a lifetime of being ni de aquí, ni de allá. Tess is currently choreographing for the Washington University Dance Collective and producing her own works. Prior to graduate school, Tess earned a BA in Dance Performance from Illinois State University, and spent the better part of a decade dancing, teaching, and performing in New Orleans.
Comparte el amor with our guest, and let us know your favorite part of this chat. We want to thank Tess for making this Sip & Chat happen and sharing her story with us!
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Brought to you by MotionScoop Dance Corp, LNXdance Podcast is a series of conversations FOR Latinx dancers and educators BY Latinx dancers and educators. Join Mari & Marcus -M&M- as they dive deep into important topics in the dance industry and explore how being part of the Latinx community affects us, our contributions, decisions, and careers.
We hope you enjoy our sip and chat. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a comment with what you loved, questions, and topics for next time!
Follow us on our Instagram page, LNXdance, to interact with our community and with us.
For business inquiries and to apply to be a guest, please email [email protected]
¡Adiós!
Hosts: Marcus Mantilla-Valentin & Mari VasconezSponsors: MotionScoop Dance Corp.
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