Event

Felix Cruz at SDDT White Box

Felix Cruz: Workshop and Performance
Presented by San Diego Dance Theater

White Box Live Arts
Arts District Liberty Station
2590 Truxtun Road, Second Floor

Thursday, June 8, 7:30 pm - PERFORMANCE
Tickets: $20

As a queer dance artist, it is my responsibility to create work that transgresses heteronormative standards. While acknowledging my western concert dance upbringing, I search for ways to make gender, race, and sexuality fluid. Creating ways all bodies can move, create, and coexist together is the ultimate goal.

Through my practice-based research, I am curious in physically dissecting the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Through collaborative platforms and approaches, my creative work lays on a foundation of communal minds. By this, I mean, I am interested in also creating collaborative work that strengthens the community while still respecting our differences. Utilizing popular culture is the crux of my practice-based research as well. Fully embodying the social construction of popular culture to create kinesthetic empathy is the most intriguing possibility to me as a dance artist. I believe the more we can allow ourselves to acknowledge the social construction popular culture has on us, the more we can create effective art that transgresses hetero-patriarchal systems.

I work this way to give voices to the queerly oppressed. As Madonna once said If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet. I wish to create an artistic practice that gives room for queer and daring voices to be heard.