Cindy Garcia
330 21st Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Cindy García is an Associate Professor who is the founding editor of the open access, bilingual publication Contours ArteCalle (University of Minnesota Libraries) with collaborators in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. She is a dance and cultural theorist, feminist performance ethnographer, and publicly-engaged scholar in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota.
Her research and teaching interests include anti-racist arts and activist praxis, race and performance in the Americas, improvisation and relationality, and decolonial feminist performance collaborations.
Cindy is interim chair in Art History, and is affiliated with the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Chicano and Latino Studies.
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Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Culture and Performance, University of California, 2005 -
- M.A.: Dance, University of California, 2002 -
- B.A.: Anthropology, University of Colorado, 1991 -
Specialties
- Race and Performance in the Americas
- Choreographic Ethnography, Ethnography of Performance
- Chicana/o and Latina/o Politics, Culture, and Performance
- Dance and the Practices of Everyday Life