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LROD
LROD
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LROD is originally from El Paso, TX, with an impressive career spanning over 24 years in education, intermedia, and performance. LROD’s expertise lies in re-imaging artistic boundaries through innovative research rooted in radical tenderness. As a vital, interdisciplinary artist/scholar, LROD brings a wealth of experience in daydreaming, surrealism, magic, and sci-fi approaches to any creative endeavor. LROD designs curriculums, experiences, and collaborations as a facilitator implementing adaptive, liberatory, and multi-modal pedagogies. LROD brings a warmly electric environment full of diverse ease, communication, and transparency for everyone to be seen, heard, and recognized. In 2014, the company LROD was founded, gaining acclaim across the United States, Canada, and Mexico for collaborative and conscious boundary-pushing performances. Before an academic career, LROD worked in the professional arts industry for 14 as a performer, educator, co-director, and choreographer. LROD amplifies embodied education and advocacy, holding positions as a lecturer at MIT, Death Care Doula, and Gyrotonics.

LROD’s artistic portfolio includes dance, film, performance art, intermedia, mask making, dramaturgy, and lighting design, showcased in venues such as the ICA, Harvard Dance Center, and Wexner Center for the Arts. LROD has collaborated with esteemed artists and organizations worldwide, including La Pocha Nostra, Livable Futures, Boston Dance Theater, Alessandro Sousa Pereira, Sara Shelton Mann, Roya Carreras, Passion Fruit Dance Company, Jay Stull & Keenan Taylor Oliphant, Amy O'Neal, Kyle Abraham, Gerard & Kelly, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora, Wideman Davis Dance, Cervantino Film Festival, Dance @30FPS, International Dance Festival, Pat Graney, Wade Madsen, Deb Wolf, and the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers.

 

LROD received numerous awards and accolades from New England Foundation of the Arts Recipient (NEFA), LiveArts Ireland Residency, Harvard's Provostial Fund Awardee, Michael M. Bromley Fund for Innovations in Dance (2021-2024), Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Grant (MMI), NALAC Leadership Fellow, and Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Awards 2024-2020 (12x). LROD is sought after for expertise in advocacy, pedagogy, and arts administration, having presented or produced at institutions and festivals such as Joyce Theater, NYU/Steinhardt, Paramount Theater, Wexner Center of the Arts, MetaLab/Berlin, MOCO, and Jacob's Pillow. LROD's academic background includes an M.F.A. in dance, intermedia, and Latinx Studies from The Ohio State University and a B.F.A. from Cornish College of the Arts in the Professional Dancers Program, supplemented by leadership roles at Harvard University as Director/Head of Dance, Artistic Director of HDP, and Affiliate Faculty with Critical Media Practice (21-24).

 

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