Cindy Garcia

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cgarcia@umn.edu
612-626-6625
Theatre Arts and Dance
550G Rarig Center
330 21st Avenue South
Cindy García is an Associate Professor, dance theorist, performance ethnographer, and playwright in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota.
Her research and teaching interests include the cultural politics of migration, race and performance in the Americas, feminist ethnography, Chicana/o and Latin/o American performance studies, and the gendered performances of latinidad in urban libidinal economies. Her current research in Cuba has two primary focuses: the Red Barrial Afrodescendiente’s anti-racist activism and the social dance gatherings of Volver a Vivir, a program operated by and for older Cubans.
Cindy is affiliated with the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Chicano and Latino Studies.
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