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Viveca Vázquez is a Puerto Rican choreographer, dancer, performance artist, and professor of contemporary dance at the University of Puerto Rico.
Biography
Vázquez trained at New York University, where she explored the "geographical schizophrenia of many Puerto Rican New Yorkers by dividing her time between the island" and the United States. In 1979, she co-founded Pisotón, the first experimental dance group of Puerto Rico and, shortly after, Taller de Otra Cosa, of which she became the first director. Through the Taller de Otra Cosa company she presented her choreographic work and produced events such as Rompeforma (co-produced and co-directed with Merián Soto), a key festival in the development of the experimental dance scene in Puerto Rico.
Since 1984, Vázquez has produced and performed experimental dance events in the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina, among other places. As a teacher she has developed a pedagogical model based on body conscience and improvisation.
List of works
- Mascando Inglés (2007)
- Maroma Nada That Ver (Composiciones Escénicas Sobre el Yo) (2006)
- Plagio (2004)
- ¡Uy! Opera of Terror (2003)
- The Película Extranjera (1999)
- Riversa (1997)
- Miss Puerto Rico o The Isla That Replaces (1996)
- Kan't Translate / Tradúcelo (1992)
- Malajuste Sui-We (1990)
- Gente o Agent Tower of Fuerza (1988)