June: -The Constellation of the Beautiful Bird.
Performed with Joshua Yago Mora
About the Duet Partner
Joshua Yago Mora
Joshua was one of those “military brats” finding himself being raised around the world. His earliest dance memories outside of kitchen dances with his family is watching his mom dance traditional folk dance with the Filipino community on base. This love of community and art built the foundation of his interaction with dance.
He studied dance at Brigham Young University where he was involved with both the student choreography company “dancEnsemble” and the outreach dance company “Kinnect” which then again added to dance as a community builder, finding himself reaching over thousands of students a season in both performance and teaching. His pedagogy was strongly influenced at a conference attended with Kinnect as part of “dance and the Child international” (daCi) in Taipei, Taiwan. Every child deserves the chance to find artistic expression and self awareness, both of which is so easily found in dance. In addition, he firmly believes that no child, whether child in age or the child at heart, should be starved of their artistic potential.
After university he co-founded a small dance company Triptych Figures and collaborated with other local Salt Lake City artists in the launch of Speakers’ Corner--a summer series for art and discussion based in activism. Before moving to Florida he found himself in several project based works and a few companies, one of his favorites being the American extension of “Everything Tendentious or M in Luck by Tatraum Projekte Schmidt of Dusseldorf, Germany. While in Utah, Joshua also taught in elementary schools as a dance specialist, ran the dance program and found himself at a couple studios. He is currently dancing with Jacksonville Dance Theatre and is excited to be teaching at Heather Loveland Dance Academy and is grateful and honored to share the joy of dance with the next generation of dancers.