I’m a performer, choreographer, theater-maker, musician, and writer from Hoboken, New Jersey.
My first love was tap dance, which lives in the knee-heart of my work and practice. I came up in the tap dance community in New York, and I’ve been very fortunate to spend time and study with some of the masters of this art form and tradition, including Dr. Bunny Briggs, Dr. Jimmy Slyde, and Dianne Walker.
I studied English and Creative Writing at Yale University, working with professors including Louise Glück, Harold Bloom, and Peter Cole. My writing practice was first focused in poetry and continues in essays, hybrid performance texts, and plays. I recently had the first production of one of my plays — La Broa’ (Broad Street), at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI.
I lived in Rhode Island for 7 years, where I had the opportunity to develop a theater practice with organizations including Rhode Island Latino Arts, Trinity Rep, the Brown/Trinity MFA Program, and AS220. I helped to develop RILA and Trinity Rep’s partnership Teatro en el Verano, which brings free bilingual productions to parks and public spaces around the state, working on the project as an actor, choreographer, assistant director, administrator, and adapter. During this time I also started to dance with Boston-based tap dance company Subject:Matter.
My partner Octavia and I now live back in NYC, in Washington Heights. I dance with the companies Music from the Sole and Michela Marino Lerman’s Love Movement and continue to develop my practices in tap dance, theater, teaching, and writing.
I’m the proud son of a Puerto Rican father from Moca and a Jewish mother from Rhode Island. I fight to lift up other Latinos and people of color and to dismantle oppressive colonial systems that disconnect us from our resources and ourselves. I believe in an independent Puerto Rico and a Free Palestine.
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