dance & choreography

Dance has always been a part of Rebecca’s personal, family and artistic life. Like many kids of Latin descent, she was surrounded by dance in a social setting from a young age- her parents always owning the dance floor with a sick merengue or bachata routine at family parties. 

Rebecca began dance training at the age of 2 and a half, and continued studying ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, modern and musical theatre dance up until her college years when she began training in post-modern technique, contact improv and Afro-Haitian dance. She studied with choreographers and movement makers such as Stephen Petronio, Annie B Parson, Paul Langland, Pat Hall, Beth Gill, Mary Overlie (viewpoints technique), and Byron Easley. Always having had strength in certain styles of street dance, Rebecca began creating her own style of movement and choreography; combining her love of the contrasting elements of “flowy and sharp”, strength and athleticism, and her knack for theatricality and story telling through dance. After finding a home in the NYC queer nightlife performance scene, elements of voguing, waacking, and house dance became prevalent in her natural movement. She continues to grow and shape her movement vocabulary; learning, improvising and experimenting with different elements and styles.

Through her activism work, she was brought on to choreograph and cast a video campaign called “Lead With Love”, in which she incorporated ASL along with her choreography to make a narrative and multi-faceted dance piece. 

She developed dance class/workshop called “Dance Like Everyone’s Watching”- a class geared toward people of any level of dance to come together and learn ways to feel empowered through dance. Drawing heavily, again, from the freedom that queer spaces for social dance exude, she taught a version of this workshop during the Reykjavik Pride Festival 2018 (Reykjavík, Iceland). Click the photo below for interview/clips from the workshop!

Rebecca’s most recent endeavors have been in professional musical theatre. In the summer 2019, she worked as the assistant choreographer and dance captain on the professional Icelandic production of We Will Rock You. She then went on to choreograph the musical Feim (aka Fame) for the prestigious Verzlunarskóli Íslands theatre group. She is currently dance captain and ensemble member of the famous Icelandic musical Kardemommubærinn at Þjóðleikhúsið (The National Theatre of Iceland), as well as choreographer and performer in the National Theatre’s production of Rómeó og Júlía.