Vanessa A. Vargas Roldán
M.A. '16
Dancer, performer, researcher, journalist and scholar. She was trained as a ballet dancer and switched to contemporary dance in her early youth, due to her interest in understanding the performative act as an experience in which the human is staged, thus showing the intricate weaving of politics, language and culture dance presupposes. During her professional career in Venezuela, she danced and choreographed for the Escuela Taller de Danza de Caracas for more than a decade, while traveling to Cuba and New York to study dance and teaching at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. She has worked at MoMa as a performer for Lygia Clark, James Lee Byars and Yoko Ono shows.