Fellowship Participants

randy reyes

Choreographer and Performance Artist
United States

randy reyes (they/them) is a queer, AfroGuatemalan (with interrupted Mayan ancestry) creative director, choreographer, performance artist, and healer born and based in Lenape territory. randy reyes (they/them) is a queer, AfroGuatemalan (with interrupted Mayan ancestry) creative director, choreographer, performance artist, and healer born and based in Lenape territory. reyes frames choreography as a process of excavation, as edging and incremental gesture, task as meditation; they activate their work using psychosomatic state werq, Qi energetics, contemporary dance, club dancing, and structures of improvisation. They love getting messy by conjuring choreographic rituals and casting spells within quotidian, natural, subliminal, and imaginary landscapes. Their performances open portals for reclaiming, re-membering, and communing with their ancestral lineage whilst interrogating and shifting patterns of intergenerational trauma. reyes is a 2020 Creative Capital Awardee and an Uptima Entrepreneurship Business Fellow. Their long-term vision is to launch La Escuela de Corporealidad y Artes Sutiles, a multidimensional space that will serve and be designed by and for Black, Indigenous, Queer, & Trans artists, activists, healers, herbalists, and pedagogues of Color to commune, rest, divest, and awaken.

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