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.

Anna Jayne Kimmel, PhD and Manuel Cuellar, PhD | George Washington 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.