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 article “‘Don’t Leave Me, Celia!’ Salsera Homosociality and Pan-Latina Corporealities” won the Gertrude Lippincott Award for the best English-language article published in Dance Studies in 2008. Duke University Press is publishing her book Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles that addresses the politics of social performances of Mexican-ness, latinidad, and migration in Los Angeles salsa clubs. Her research and teaching interests include the cultural politics of migration, race, and racialization, feminist ethnography, Chicana/o and Latin/o American Performance Studies, and the gendered performances of latinidad in urban libidinal economies. In 2010 she was awarded a Ford Foundation Research Fellowship The American Society for Theatre Research awarded her the Selma Jean Cohen Award in 2009 for Scholarship in Theatre and Dance/Movement-based Fields. She wrote the play How to Make it to the Dance Floor: A Salsa Guide for Women (Based on Actual Experiences), and performed a staged reading in collaboration with dramaturg Dr. Lucy Burns (UCLA) and director/choreographer Margit Edwards (Los Angeles) with critical commentary from Invited Scholar Deborah Paredez (University of Texas at Austin), University of Minnesota, 9/22/2008.