Date of Award
Spring 5-3-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Dance
First Advisor
maura nyguen donohue
Second Advisor
Carlos R. A. Jones
Academic Program Adviser
maura nyguen donohue
Abstract
“AGUA” is a call for new models of learning and sharing, celebrating the diasporic as a place of global revolution. Salsa, rooted in Latin American and Afro-Caribbean histories, is choreographer Cory Villegas’s expression of cultural legacy. As an Afro-diasporic dance, Salsa carries the wealth and variety of African and Indigenous roots. Villegas contextualizes her thesis event “Las Leyendas: An Afro Cuban Suite,” presenting herself and her troupe Soul Dance Co. as evidence that contradicts the erasure of Latin & Caribbean Culture in US dance history. The paper uses English and Spanish, written, visual, and oral materials with an accompanying webpage.
Recommended Citation
Villegas, Cory, "AGUAAAA!!!" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1163
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