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BIOGRAPHY
Cuauhtémoc Peranda, MFA (Xicano/Aztec and Mescalero
Apache) is a choreographer, dancer and teaching artist from Santa Cruz,
California.
His dance training primarily comes from Tezcatlipoca under David
Vargas, Tlaloc-Chalchihuitlicue by Elizabeth and Elena Barron, as well as
Stanford University and Mills College.
His work has been presented around the
Bay Area, and he has traveled through the United States, and to Canada and
Mexico as a performer.
Since the age of 15, Cuauhtémoc has taught traditional
Aztec dance to his communities and now continues to teach Aztec dance and give
lessons in voguing, and contemporary dances.
He has studied with, and performed
in contemporary works, by Ralph Lemon, Rulan Tangen, Ann Carlson, Jane Comfort,
Robert Moses, Diane Frank, Aleta Hayes, Parijat Desai, Susie Cashion, Tony
Kramer, Sonya Delwaide, Molissa Fenley, Jerome Bel, Sheldon Smith, and Shnichi
Iova-Koga.
He has graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree
in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and was the 2010 recipient of the
Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for Work Addressing Social Issues. He holds an MFA in
Choreography and Performance from Mills College, where he was awarded the E.L. Wiegand Foundation
Award for Dance Departmental Excellence upon graduation.
Cuauhtémoc
current artistic interest is the examination of modern dance’s Decolonial relationship
to the “Native American Indian”, Queer & Quare Fierceness, and multi-media
collaboration. He is the Founding Artistic Director of art company: Mitote
Choreographics, and he performs regularly as a freelance dancer.
IDEAS I TEND TO PONDER WITH MY WORK ARE ABOUT:
Race, Gender, Decolonization, the Body, Flesh, History, Ancestral Memory, Metaphor, Sex, Poetry, Desire, Fractals, Subcultures, Club-Cultures, Anarchy and Love.
