We passed the mic to Mario Ismael Espinoza (they/them), who is part of the Entertainment Community Fund, and David Herrera (he/him), who discussed the creation and evolution of Herrera’s Latinx Hispanic Dancers over the last 20 years. Through this discussion, they unravel how Herrera’s perspective of his future career evolved as he began to envision the inception of Latinx Hispanic Dancers and began to understand what holes in the dance community he wanted the company to fill, especially in the Latinx community. All of these leads back to revisiting the question: Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house?

(recorded: March 3, 2025)

Kayla Hamilton is a performance maker, dancer, educator, and consultant, who is a current Jerome Hill and Pina Bausch Fellow and is the founder of the recently formed “Circle O”, an organization centering BIPOC Disabled creatives. She is the co-developer of “Crip Movement Lab”, described as “pedagogical framework centering cross-disability movement practices for every-body” and has developed access center programming for several dance organizations in NYC.

Jerron Herman is a dancer/writer, who has premiered works at Danspace Project, Baltimore Museum of Art, LIncoln Center (digital), among others. His writings, including Art Papers and 3 Bodies, have been published across both nationally and internationally. Jerron is currently a part of INTERIM, described as “a boutique centering joy for disabled artists”, and has recently received the 2024 USA Fellowship and the 2023-24 Fellowship at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts.

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David Herrera

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Mario Ismael Espinoza

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Artists and Organizations Mentioned:

https://www.dhperformance.org/

https://lovedancemore.org/

https://www.paramardance.com/

https://www.stephaniegarcia.art/

https://www.instagram.com/primerageneraciondance/

https://www.gabrielmatamovement.com/about-5

Yvonne Montoya - https://www.yvonnemontoya.co/

Dancers Group - https://dancersgroup.org/

Bridge Live Arts - https://www.bridgelivearts.org/

Omar Roman de Jesus/Bocatuya - https://www.bocatuya.com/

Rosie Herrera - https://www.rosieherrera.dance/

Vanessa Sanchez - https://lamezclasf.net/about/