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Cindy Garcia

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cgarcia@umn.edu
612-626-6625

Theatre Arts and Dance
550G Rarig Center
330 21st Avenue South

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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 racialization, feminist ethnography, Chicana/o and Latin/o American Performance Studies, and the gendered performances of latinidad in urban libidinal economies. She is curently researching the politics and performance of blackness in the social dance spaces of Cuba.

Cindy is also associated with the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Chicano and Latino studies.

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Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.
  • M.A.: Dance, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.
  • B.A.: Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

  • Dance and the Practices of Everyday Life
  • Ethnography of Performance
  • Chicana/o and Latina/o Politics, Culture, and Performance
  • Migration, Race, and Performance Studies
Courses Taught
  • Theatre 8120: Race, Diaspora, and Performance
  • Theatre 8120: Ethnography of Performance
  • DNCE 3411: Dance and Popular Culture
  • DNCE 1401: Introduction to Dance
Research & Professional Activities

Outreach

  • Member, Board of Directors for Academia Cesar Chavez Elementary School, St. Paul: 2010 - present
Publications
  • Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles. Garcia, Cindy, Duke University Press, Author, 2013.
  • Garcia, Cindy M. "The Great Migration: Salsa Speculations and the Performance of Latinidad." Dance Research Journal (2013 in press):
  • Garcia, Cindy M. ""Don't Leave Me, Celia!" Salsera Homosociality and Pan-Latina Corporealities." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Volume 18, Issue 3 (2008): 199-213.
  • Garcia, Cindy M. "Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)." Mediated Moves: A Popular Screen Dance Reader (2013 in press):
Awards
  • Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, 2010 - 2011
  • Selma Jean Cohen Award from ASTR for Scholarship in Theatre and Dance/Movement-based Fields, 2009
  • Gertrude Lippincott Award from SDHS for her article: "Don't Leave Me, Celia!" Salsera Homosocialities and Pan-Latina Corporealities, 2009