MITOTE CHOREOGRAPHICS

Artist-Scholar-Warrior

Cuauhtemoc Peranda: Cuauhtemoc is a quare, indigenous, xicano dancer, choreographer, traditional and contemporary artist, and writer. He is from Santa Cruz California--but he considers himself from the Bay Area generally. His work, Choreography, explores pure-unadorned steps, shapes, forms, and rhythms gathered from ancestral memory, and tends to hold themes and issues of race, gender, sexuality, sub- & Counter- Culture. He holds an MFA in Dance from Mills College, and a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University. His current project is developing Mitote-- a Dance form which merges contemporary and traditional dance practices, blurring the lines between ritual and performance, but in a modern sensibility. Mitote is an mix of Inter-tribal Dance, Jazz, Ballet, Modern&Post-Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, Aztec Dance, and Voguing