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Journeying Into, Through, and With Chicana/Latina Feminist Curriculum Praxes in Dance Education

"Our proposal specifically addresses the questions, 1) How are you crafting open, welcoming and diverse curriculums? and 2) How are you challenging systems of oppression through your work, your teaching, your practices? Our storytelling and teaching practices we share in our session activates critical perspectives of curriculum design and philosophy, reimagines ways of relating, teaching, and making through Chicana/Latina feminist philosophy, and transforms or re-cultures curriculum design and teaching praxes for arts educators."

Alexia Buono

Alexia Buono is a cis(ish), queer, non-disabled, white-bodied Latina of Mixed ancestry. She is a Lecturer at the University of Vermont on the unceded land of the Abenaki. Alexia studies and implements abolitionist, somatic, and relationship-building pedagogies with students, colleagues, and artists. Her website is https://www.alexiabuono.com/.

Yebel Gallegos

Yebel Gallegos is a dance artist from the borderlands. He sees and embraces the potency of the nepantla state, his Mexican-Americanness allows him to continuously (re)imagine his work and place in dance. Yebel has an MFA from the University of Washington and is currently an Assistant Professor at Bard College.

Kiri Avelar

Kiri Avelar is a fronteriza artist-scholar and educator from the U.S./Mexico borderlands of El Paso, Texas/Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua. A former Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellow and NYU CLACS Teaching Fellow, her work is anchored in Chicana/Latina feminist epistemologies, border(lands) studies, and interdisciplinary frameworks.

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