Dance Core with Carlos Rivera
Day: Tuesday & Thursday
Dates: May 5 & 7
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Cost: FREE
Class Description
Carlos's movement classes intertwine fundamentals and principles of traditional dance with somatic movement techniques. Participants will experience and establish a deep relationship with the ground, and then will explore those principles throughout movement phrases in the space.
Instructor Biography
Carlos Rivera Martinez is a performing artist originally from Mexico City and based in Montreal. He specializes in conceptualizing, creating, producing, directing, and executing projects in dance, theatre, and performance art. Carlos is a Nahua with deep roots in the Sierra Norte region of Puebla, Mexico.
He graduated from the Mexico City Dance School under the Mexico City Ministry of Culture and from the Choreographic Research Center of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBAL). He completed courses, workshops, and diploma programs at the National Center for Research and Development in Dance (CENIDI-Danza), the National Center for the Arts, and INBAL’s professional dance schools. He received a fellowship from the Fund for Culture and the Arts, participating in the Mexico-Canada Artist Residency Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1999 and 2000.
Carlos collaborated for sixteen years with Red Sky Performance, where he worked as an associate artist, performer, rehearsal director, stage director, and co-choreographer on numerous productions and toured Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America.
He studied theatre at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 2018, and earned an MFA in Theatre Directing from the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. Carlos has collaborated on artistic projects with various companies within the Mexican and Canadian artistic and cultural diaspora, including: Grupo Propuesta, Ballet Folklórico de México, Compañía de Teatro Nahual de México, Minotauro Danza Contemporánea, Yumare Arte Escénico, Raven Spirit Dance, Lemon Tree Creations, MT Space Theatre, Vancouver Opera, Jaberi Dance Theatre, Electric Company, The Chimera Project, and Micro-Scope Productions, among others.
Carlos has been a member of the academic staff at various arts education institutions, such as the National School of Folkloric Dance (Mexico), the University of Ottawa (as an assistant professor), the Banff Centre for the Arts (as a faculty member in the Indigenous Arts program), and Bishop’s University (as a visiting artist) and University of Kansas ( visiting artists). He has taught master classes at universities, institutes, and educational organizations in Mexico, China, Costa Rica, the United States, and Canada.
