Interdisciplinary Arts for Children Program
Juanita Suarez
Associate Professor and
MA Graduate Dance Program Advisor
Phone: (585) 395-5137
E-mail:
jsuarez@brockport.edu
Juanita Suarez,
associate professor and MA graduate program advisor,
Ph.D., Texas Woman's University, MFA, University of Utah. Holding
a joint position in the Department of Dance and Arts for Children Program,
she teaches dance research, history, and education. A recipient of the
$14,000 Rockefeller Grant for US-Map Fund for Culture, she conducted research
in Mexico, resulting in collaborations with
Luz y Fuerza (Mexico)
and
El Corazon, a migrant ensemble. She performed for Legends of
China 2000, a dance exchange involving forty-five American and Chinese
dance artists/scholars. Her research on Chicana dancemaking as a rising
aesthetic within modern dance, will be included in "Interpreting
Ourselves: Insider Ethnographies of Contemporary Dance Practice,"
to be published by Sir Wilfred Laurier in 2005. As a co-founding member
of the Latina Dance Project, a national/international ensemble of Latina
performers, the LDP supports the creative voice of the Latina experience
and will premiere an Aztec-based project titled "Coyolxauhqui Re-Members"
at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico in
2006.
