Alfonso Cervera
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Alfonso Cervera holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside and currently teaches at Cornish College of the Arts as the Interim Assistant Professor of Dance. He is a Queer first generational Mexican American choreographer, performer, educator, curator, and activist. Along with his degree, he holds professional certifications in Asana Yoga, Reiki Healing, and has recently been elected as Executive Director of Show Box L.A.
His research and specialization as an independent artist, focuses on the conversation between queerness, Ballet Folklorico and Afro-LatinX social dances in a contemporary auto-biographical embodied experience that he calls Poc-Chuc. Poc-Chuc, an emerging and inclusive dance technique developed by Cervera, weaves these techniques and pedagogical tools to create social justice works that represent marginalized communities.
Cervera currently is a collaborator with Primera Generacion Dance Collective located in Los Angeles, CA where they have recently been honored in receiving the National Endowment of the Arts grant.
ABOUT THE WORK
As an artist, it’s important for me to create a work that captures the essence of the communities that I have stemmed from and how those experiences continue to inform my dance creation. The film Flor de Mayo, is a new work that re-imagines a Indigenous Mayan cuento (story) of my Yucatan heritage in a queered perspective that represents the duality that I belong to. As this story was passed down to me from my grandmother, this story will be a movement based exploration of the queer identities that plays on how one re-imagines themselves not as human, but as a hybrid of many things.
