Contemporary Materialities from a Feminist Perspective: An offering of a consideration; Embodied Political Information and its important signaling towards points of inquiry from the perspective of a Xicane reality 

Guest lecture in the course of Contemporary Materialities from a Feminist Perspective at Florida International University [professor, Niurca Marquez], 2024

This lecture is a critique of the text, Material Feminism (Alaimo and Heckman)- Chapter 12, From Race/Sex/etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism via a framing of my Cybernetic Map for Understanding a Rubric for Reading Embodied Political Information in Performance.  The embodied political information is central and necessary to the artists' work and statement/argument within the work. Many times it is necessary for the viewer to read the embodied political information 

Embodied Land: a practice from the Body as Land Project

Guest teacher in the course of Latine Movement: Embodied Intersections of Latin Dance, Music, and Communal Practice [professor LROD]  at Harvard University, 2024

Embodied Writing: the interoceptive perspective of voice

Presented at El Mundo Zurdo 2022, the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa

this is an ongoing project I have been investigating with a fellow dance scholar and artist, Lauren Tietz. Embodied writing practices are plentiful and varied and it was our desire to experiment with sharing different practices and excavating the question "what is embodied writing".  from our work we have discovered that an intentional process of embodied writing leads to a shifting of perspective of self through the senses and results in a different texture of writing/text output. another observation we have made is that the body becomes the landscape of which the metaphors reside, making the body a landscape for exploration, rest, and connection.

Tooling Social Media in Dance Education

Presented my work on this topic as an interactive presentation at the NDEO conference in 2017 

an ongoing experiment to utilize the language of social media platforms and objects as ways to engage, teach, and speak about performance. social media is a place, I believe, that holds vast possibilities for engaging students not only in the literacy of dance and performance but also can be a tool that can be used to experiment with the act of composition.

Reading Dance: a three step process for understanding dance as social commentary, political embodiment, and anti-racism

 Lecture presented as part of Dance Appreciation course at Palo Alto College, and to FIU Honors College students in Miami, Florida

'reading dance' is a methodology I have developed over the past five years which I teach in my lecture, technique, and composition courses in dance. this methodology examines three key components to all performance based work, which aids the viewer in understanding performance from an anti-racist worldview, as well as determining markers that aid the viewer in maintaining empathy or at the least, understanding for more abstract and conceptual work.

Finding Presence and Liveness in Networked Performance and Online Spaces

Thesis work and ongoing investigation

developing a practice of reading movement over and within the network space and sensing liveness in the network-bound communication to build authentic relationship. this work involves the idea that the networked online space is a place outside of time. this practice is initiated through the framework of dance and performance but it ultimately is about exploring the living and the richness of being in the 'on' space of the network.