AMELIA ROSE ESTRADA

Amelia Rose Estrada is a queer, Dominican-Cuban-Jewish performance maker and scholar. She is interested in crafting work that speaks to Latinidad, gender, queerness, and intergenerational ancestral relationality. Her work draws on methods from dance, performance art, and theater. In addition to her individual projects, Amelia frequently collaborates wih Elle Jansen, under the company name MELLE, and with Gabriel Mata. Recently, her choreography has been presented at The Kennedy Center (co-choreographed with Gabriel Mata), The Rockwell (co-choreographed with Elle Jansen), Arrow Street Arts, University Settlement in NYC, and SPACE in Portland, Maine, among others. As a theater creative, Amelia co-choreographed CarmXn, a modern adaptation of the opera Carmen with Hogfish Maine, was the associate choreographer for Moonbox’s production of Sweeney Todd, and co-directed and choreographed the musical adaptation of Twelfth Night at Tufts University. Favorite performance credits include A Dance For You and Me with Eventual Dance Company, CarmXn with Hogfish, Romeo and Juliet with Brian Sanders and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Dancing Dead with Brian Sanders JUNK.

In addition to her work as an artist, Amelia is a PhD candidate in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on how dance participates in the cultural and historical imaginary of Dominicanidad both in the Dominican Republic and diaspora. Her article “Dancing Migration: Trespassing, Borders, and Precarious Crossings in Silvana Cardell’s Supper, People on the Move” was published in the Routledge Companion for Latine Theater and Performance and she has a forthcoming article titled “Conditions of Undress: dancing in lo sucio” in the anthology Queer Hopes and Futures which she is writing in collaboration with Gabriel Mata about creating queer Latine performance. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Swarthmore College and holds an M.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Tufts University.