Livable Futures: Latinx Movement Lab
A movement laboratory investigating joy, ritual, and freedom in contemporary Latin rhythms and forms. Latinx Movement Lab will explore horizontal and vertical weight, isolations, and hip articulations in a community-based environment of radical tenderness. No experience in Latin movement necessary to participate.
bio
LROD is a Chicana from El Paso and the Tex-Mex borderlands who actively create inclusive installations, surreal dance-works, and integrates emerging technology with care. Recognized as an interdisciplinary performance artist/choreographer; LROD’s current mediums intersect dance, performance, visual art, mask making, costume design, lighting, and interactive technologies. Her movement research investigates contemporary lineages of Latinidad in dance, alter-egoism, and discovering communal environments of radical tenderness. Her films explore Latinidad in the context of borderland cultural production through the lens of surrealism, futurity, and inter-generational archives.
She brings thirty years of experience as a performer and movement practitioner and has over fifteen years of choreographic, teaching, and visual arts experience. In 2017 she received her B.F.A. from the Professional Dancers Program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before migrating to Columbus. Laura is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in choreographic research and technology from the Department of Dance, alongside a Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Minor in Latina/o Studies at The Ohio State University. Lrod is currently an awardee of the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project Graduate Grant (19) for the current production of two films on the Tex-Mex border, and The Graduate School’s Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) Program (19). Recognized as a multi-disciplinary choreographer she has produced work Seattle for Base Experimental Arts + Space, Center for Contemporary Art (COCA), City Opera Ballet, Men in Dance, Boost Dance Festival, Converge Dance Festival, Men in Dance Choreographers Showcase, and New Moves. She has performed in works by Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Livable Futures: Climate Gathering, Deborah Wolf, Pat Graney, Wade Madsen, Spareworks.Dance, and Erison Dancers. For the past year and a half, LROD has been a collaborator with La Pocha Nostra and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. For more information visit: www.lrod.space