crystal sepúlveda – curriculum vitae
crystal is a dance artist and university dance lecturer based in Southern California. She specializes in teaching improvisation, composition, and contemporary dance practices for live performance and installation.
Education
2012 Masters of Fine Arts, Experimental Choreography. University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA
2008 Bachelor of Arts, Dance. Florida International University. Miami, FL
Teaching History – lectureships, guest teaching, and teaching assistant
Lecturer (by reappointment), Department of Dance at the University of California Riverside. Riverside, CA
Undergraduate courses taught:
Jan. – Mar. 2021 DNCE115K, Dance-Making, Dance as Political Activation (composition), Winter Quarter
Apr. – Jun. 2020 DNCE115G: Dance-Making, Dance as Ritual (composition), Spring Quarter
Mar. – Jun. 2016 DNCE067C: Advanced Modern Dance, Spring Quarter
Sep. – Dec. 2015 DNCE067B: Intermediate Modern Dance Technique, Fall Quarter
Jan. – Mar. 2015 DNCE067A: Beginning Modern Dance Technique, Winter Quarter
Lecturer, Dance Studies Program at California State University San Marcos. San Marcos, CA
Undergraduate course taught:
Jan. – May 2021 DAN 200: Awareness Through Movements, Spring Semester
Lecturer, Programa de Danza at La Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Santurce, Puerto Rico
Undergraduate courses taught:
Jan. – June 2018 DAN314: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Choreographic Practices, Spring Semester
Jan. – June 2018 DAN403: Advance Contemporary Dance, Spring Semester
Jan. – June 2018 DAN113: Introduction to Dance, Spring Semester
Aug. – Dec. 2017 DAN203: Intermediate Contemporary Dance, Fall Semester
Aug. – Dec. 2017 DAN304: Intermediate/Advance Contemporary Dance, Fall Semester
Associate Faculty (by reappointment), Dance Department at Mt. San Jacinto College. Hemet, CA
Under graduate courses taught:
Jan. – June 2017 DAN213: Dance Performance, Spring Semester
Jan. – June 2017 DAN122B: Advance Beginning Modern Dance Spring Semester
Aug. – Dec. 2015 DAN122A: Beg. Modern Dance, Fall Semester
Aug. – Dec. 2014 DAN131: Beg. Hip Hop, Fall Semester
Aug. – Dec. 2014 DAN123: Beg. Jazz Technique, Fall Semester
Guest Teaching, Visual and Performing Arts Depart. at California State University San Marcos. San Marcos, CA
Undergraduate courses taught:
Sept. – Oct. 2016 DNCE 201: Beg. Contemporary Dance Technique, Fall Semester
Sept. – Oct. 2016 DNCE 311: Movement Improvisation, Fall Semester
Guest Teaching, Visual and Performing Arts Department at the University of Fairfield. Fairfield, CT
Undergraduate courses taught:
Oct. – Nov. 2013 TA 94: Performance Workshop, Fall Semester
Oct. – Nov. 2013 TA 135: Modern and Contemporary Dance, Fall Semester
Guest Teaching, Dance & World Performance/Theatre Program at Eastern Connecticut State University. Willimantic, CT
Undergraduate course taught:
Oct. – Nov. 2013 DNC 445: Dance Composition, Fall Semester
Teaching Assistant, Department of Dance at University of California at Riverside. Riverside, CA
Undergraduate courses taught:
Jan. – March 2010 DNCE 005: Introduction to Dance, Winter Quarter
Sept. – Dec. 2010 DNCE 005: Introduction to Dance, Fall Quarter
Jan. – March 2011 DNCE 005: Introduction to Dance, Winter Quarter
Productions – artistic director, producer, and curator
2020 Dancing Rituals Alone & Together During Uncertain Times. Virtual undergraduate dance concert.
Department of Dance at the University of California Riverside. Riverside, CA. June 1st, 3rd, and 5th 2020.
2020 Artist Talks: Dance as Ritual. Artists invited – nibia pastrana santiago, Toni Pasion, Charmaine Bee, J.
Bouey, and Samantha Blake Goodman. Department of Dance at the University of California Riverside.
2018 Activaciones: Investigacíon + Pop Up + Performance. Dance Program, School of Interdisciplinary
Humanistic & Social Sciences Studies at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Santurce, PR
2017 river knows project: Dancing with the Santa Ana river. In partnership with Keep Riverside Clean and
Beautiful. Additionally, mentored young artists of color to produce collaborative community-based project
along Santa Ana river. Riverside, CA.
2016 Sequences in Pieces. Undergraduate performance event at the Riverside Art Museum. Riverside, CA
2016 It might finish like this/this is how it starts. An evening of improvisational performance and spontaneous
collaboration. Invited artists – Lina Gómez, Tomomi Adachi, Eva Baumann, Crystal Sepúlveda, Ulrike
Brand, and Akemi Nagao. Lake Studios Berlin, Germany
2015 (Un)Masking Feat: A performance installation + exhibition. A project in collaboration with community
members and dance students at the Riverside Art Museum, in conjunction with the Riverside Tamale
Festival, and in conversation with the installation Tlahualilies: The Glorious Masks of Sahuayo. Riverside
Art Museum. Riverside, CA
2015 DanceSTORM. A dance festival featuring women-identifying dance-makers and performers. Co-curated
and produced with Tracy tom-Hoon and Sue Roginski. Artists invited – Anya Cloud, Stephanie Y. Jolivet,
Mackenzey Franklin, Samantha Blake Goodman, Rebeca Hernandez, and Sue Roginski. Culver Center for
the Arts, Riverside, CA
2014 DanceSTORM. A day long dance happening with dance improvisation workshops and performances.
Co-curated and produced with Sue Roginski, Tracy Tom-Hoon, and Harmony Wolfe. Artists invited –
Megan Fowler-Hurst, Tracy Tom-Hoon, Hannah Schwadron, and Sofia Carreras with Intersect Dance
Theatre. Culver Center for
the Arts, Riverside, CA
Performances – original choreography
2019 Rooting Within. Sowden House, HomeLA. Los Angeles, CA
2019 Remedios. lookingforwardlookingback, Culver Center of the Arts. Riverside, CA
2019 Instructions provided by a mother’s intuition postpartum. Women’s Center for Creative Work. Los Angeles,CA
2018 tropical forecast. NOT FESTIVAL, University of California Riverside Department of Dance, Riverside,CA
2018 estamos vivos. Field Studies, Chez Bushwick Studios. Brooklyn, NY
2018 untitled. Marathon de Improvisacion, Programa de Danza, La Universidad de Sagrado Corazon. Puerto Rico
2016 Merge. Part. Locate. homeLA. Vicotria Park, Los Angeles, CA
2016 to call it common. Centro Estatal de Las Artes Tijuana. Tijuana, Mexico
2016 It might finish like this/this is how it starts. Lakes Studio Berlin. Berlin, Germany
2015 SCULPTED B O D I E S. Riverside Community Arts Association. Riverside, CA
2015 Tracking Device. El Centro Cultural De Tijuana, 4x4 Concurso de Coreografia. Tijuana, Mexico
2015 hair = fall. Culver Center of the Arts. Riverside, CA
2014 Tracking Device. Field Studies, Chez Bushwick Studios. Brooklyn, NY
2014 Tracking Device. Bootleg Theater. Los Angeles, CA
2014 detour. homeLA. El Sereno, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Decentering (en)counter [balance]. SDHS & CORD conference, Culver Center of the Arts. Riverside, CA
2013 Salton Sea. Solo Dolo Series: An Array of Solo Works, Highways Performance Space. Santa Monica, CA
2012 (En)counter [balance]. Music and Space Conference, CUNY Graduate Center Department of Music. New York, NY
2012 (En) counter [balance]. Dance Studio Theatre, University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA
2012 (En) counter [balance]. CARL Residency Performance, Culver Center of the Arts. Riverside, CA
2011 Dirty Laundry on Sundays. Latino/a Arts Now series, Highways Performance Space. Santa Monica, CA
2008 Mental Portrait. University Dance Theatre, Florida International University. Miami, FL
2008 NERVEnding. Excello Dance Space.Miami, FL
2008 NERVEnding. Museum of Contemporary Art. North Miami, FL
Group Exhibitions – choreography, live performance and/or audio-visual installations
2018 Ch’u Mayaa, with Clarissa Tossin and Jeremy Glaholt. Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York City, NY
2017 Ch’u Mayaa, with Clarissa Tossin and Jeremy Glaholt. Condemned to be Modern, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2017 the river knows. Dialectics of Isolation, Human Resources LA. Los Angeles, CA
2017 the river knows. Movement and the Body Through the Lens, California Museum of Photography. Riverside, CA
2016 the river knows. (de) Color -Es, Human Resources LA. Los Angeles, CA
2015 (Un)Masking Feat. Tlahualiles: The Glorious Masks of Sahuayo exhibition, Riverside Art Museum. Riverside, CA
Collaborations – performer, choreographer, and/or sound designer
2018 Encounter #43 and #44, with Mariel Carranza and guest artists. Getty’s Pacific Standard Time (PST) Live Arts Festival, Human Resources LA. Los Angeles
2018 Cat’s Craddle (1975), with Sylvia Palacios Whitman & Meg Wolfe. REDCAT Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2018 Everything #3, with Adrian Piper. Adrian Piper’s Retrospective, Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA
2017 Ch’u Mayaa, with Clarissa Tossin and Jeremy Glaholt. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2017 ¿Quién sigue?, with Rebeca Hernandez. Human Resources LA. Los Angeles, CA
2016 Bodyscape, with Luca Forccuci and Ulrike Brand. Centre Dürrenmatt in Neuchâtel. Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2016 Mapping de Cendrars au Bresil, with Luca Forcucci. Musée des beaux-arts Le Locle. Le Locle, Switzerland
2016 Klasse, with Hannah Schwadron. Perez Art Museum Miami, ScreenDance Miami Festival. Miami, FL
2016 Listen, with Jorge Bachmann. Sonic Body Series, Center for New Music & Audio Technologies. Berkeley, CA
2015 Bodyscape, with Luca Forcucci and Cheryl Leonard. The LAB. San Francisco, CA
2015 Bodyscape, with Luca Forcucci and Cheryl Leonard. Temescal Art Center. Oakland CA
2015 EXCERPTS, with Samantha Blake Goodman. Highways Performance Space. Santa Monica, CA
2015 the the, with Tanya Lukin-Linklater, Indigenous Choreographer's Project, Riverside, CA
2015 Meadow, with Taisha Paggett and WXPT. Los Angeles Contemporary EXhibitions. Los Angeles, CA
2015 Basic Edition, with Manners’ and Oscar Tilde. BodyTalk, Di Rosa Art Gallery. Napa, CA
2014 Simultaneously 1,3,5,9, with Selwa Sweidan. University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
2014 Radical Sensing, with Selwa Swiedan. Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, CA
2013 Arch Mirror #1 & #2, with Lia Sfoggia and Guilherme Bertissolo. Danca em Foco. Rio De Janiero, Brazil
2013 Clouds and Claves, with Rebecca Pappas & Dancers. High Voltage Series at Electric Lodge. Venice, CA
2013 REPO, with Wendy Rogers & Collaborators. Culver Center of the Arts, Riversidse, CA
2010 Globotica, with Minerva Tapia. El Centro Cultural De Tijuana. Tijuana, Mexico
Commissions
2017 running circles around erasure. Front & Main Dance Festival, Old Town Temecula Theater. Temecula, CA
2017 running circles around erasure. Performing Arts Theater, Mt. San Jacinto College Dance Department. Hemet, CA
2015 make manifest move. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA.
2014 SCAN. Avocado Dance Theatre, Old Town Temecula Community Theater. Temecula, CA
2014 End. Performing Arts Theater, Mt. San Jacinto College Dance Department. Hemet, CA
Creative Residencies
2016 Luxor Factory with Luca Forcucci. Le Locle, Switzerland
2016 Visual and Performing Arts Dept, California State University San Marcos. San Marcos, CA
2015 Riverside Art Museum. Riverside, CA
2014 Projects Room Resident Artist at the Milkbar Salon. Oakland, CA
2012 CARL Resident Artist with no.e Parker, Culver Center of the Arts. Riverside, CA
Master Classes
2019 Composing while dancing. Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA
2018 Contact Improvisation Fundamentals. La Universidad del Sagrado Corazon. Santurce, Puerto Rico
2018 Experimental Theater Workshop. Co-facilitator Kindred Gottlieb. Wisdom Arts Laboratory. Pasadena, CA
2017 Bartenieff Fundamentals. Front & Main Dance Festival. Temecula, CA
2017 Scores: Composing Improvisation. Arts and Minds Program, Riverside Arts Council. Riverside, CA
2017 Experimental Theater Workshop. Co-facilitator Kindred Gottlieb. Wisdom Arts Laboratory. Pasadena, CA
2016 Deep Listening: Activating Attention and Presence. Lakes Studio Berlin. Berlin, Germany
2016 Experimental Theater Workshop. Co-facilitator Kindred Gottlieb. Wisdom Arts Laboratory. Pasadena, CA
2015 Composing the Periphery. Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Awards & Fellowships
2018 Emergency Grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts. New York, NY
2015 Brithinee Fellowship for creative research, awarded by UCR Dance Department. Riverside, CA
2012 Gluck Artist Fellow, Gluck Fellows Program for the Arts. Riverside, CA
2011 Masters of Fine Arts Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA
2010 Gluck Artist Fellow, Gluck Fellows Program for the Arts. Riverside, CA
2009 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA
published writings
maría, naíri, and i (2019). We Spoke, editor Meital Yaniv.
Instructions provided by a mother’s intuition postpartum (2019). We Spoke, editor Meital Yaniv.
reviews – choreography and collaborations
HomeLA’s PASSAGES Allow Sowden House Spirits to Come Back to Life. LA Dance Chronicle - Lara J. Altunian, 1/25/19
What to See in New York Galleries This Week New York Times - Peter Fischli, 9/13/18
“Place,” “Town,” “To Make a House”: Metonyms of Identity at the Whitney The Avery Review - Virginia Black, 9/29/18
BWW Review: Recontextualizing Architecture as Art in Pacific Standard Time LA/LA's CONDEMNED TO BE MODERN Broadway World - Ellen Dostal 9/15/17
Nearly a century later, a video artist follows Frank Lloyd Wright's Mayan footsteps Los Angeles Times - Sharon Mizota, 10/15/17