Moving Relations in Latinx/e Performance:
An Artist-Scholar Talk
about the event
Positioned alongside the Latinx Movement Festival in Washington, DC, this seminar places Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz in conversation with Dr. Manuel Cuellar on themes of Latinx/e identity, performance practice, and movement politics. Through choreographic exchange and critical dance studies, this conversation deepens and challenges fraught discourse surrounding illegality and citizenship, brownness and Latinidad, and queer belonging.
featured sessions
9
Oct
2026
First Session
ORGANIZER/S & INSTITUTION AFFILIATION
The LatinXpressions Series is an initiative of the Cisneros Institute that aims to inspire the GW community through stimulating conversations with Latinx artists, authors, and musicians. At our upcoming event, we’ll be joined by Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, who will reflect on the relationship between making and thinking through his choreography, writing, and current book project, Alien Choreographies: Dancing Beyond Citizenship. The event is offered in a hybrid format both via Zoom and in-person at the Corcoran School of Art & Design’s Flagg Building near the White House.
Anna Jayne Kimmel, PhD and Manuel Cuellar, PhD | George Washington University
About the speakers
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (Ph.D.) is a choreographer whose work has been presented internationally. When not creating work under DANZA/FUERZA, he’s devising with NAKA Dance Theater. In addition to choreographing and performing, he writes about performance’s role in transforming society and ideas of citizenship. His academic and public-facing essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Dance Research Journal, Performance Philosophy, Theatre Research International, In Dance, and loveDancemore, as well as performance anthologies. He’s currently completing his first book, Alien Choreographies: Dancing Beyond Citizenship. He edited and contributed to the book Dismantling: Dance, Space, and Memory in Tallahassee (2026), which was commissioned by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. He’s a 2026–2027 Career Enhancement Fellow with the Institute for Citizens & Scholars and the past managing director of San Francisco’s Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. He’s an assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
Anna Jayne Kimmel is a performance studies scholar invested in the intersection of legal humanities and dance studies, with particular attention to race/coloniality, francophone histories, and bodily scrutiny. As a dancer, she has performed the works of Ohad Naharin, Trisha Brown, John Jasperse, Francesca Harper, Olivier Tarpaga, and Susan Marshall, amongst others. In addition, Kimmel pursues community-engaged research in carceral studies, fostering collaboration with artists in confinement and serving as a restorative justice facilitator for alternative accountability programs in the DMV area.
This event is part of the Latinx Movement Festival and is co-sponsored by the Cisneros Institute, Performance Studies international, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for Immigration and Migration Studies.
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