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Expertise Latin/o American Culture and Performance Studies; Gender Studies; Immigration, Globalization, and Performance Regions of Interest The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and the Americas Current Project Salsa Across Borders: Dancing Mexican-ness, Latinidad, and American-ness in México, D.F. Through ethnographic analyses of social performances of salsa, Cindy García contributes to studies in cultural globalization by focusing on how local salsa economies are inextricably linked to translocal international exchanges. She addresses how dance practitioners in El Distrito Federal incorporate, sift through, reject, and abandon Los Angeles style salsa – the style that has become dominant on global salsa stages. She considers the ways in which Mexicana salseras choreograph Mexican-ness and femininity as they navigate the salsa economies in el Distrito Federal and at international salsa congresses. As Los Angeles-based salsa practices have begun to circulate in Mexico, how do Mexicana/o salseras/os interpret the intersection of U.S. and Mexican codes for femininity, sexuality, race, class, and nation within salsa spaces? Book Project: Dancing Salsa Wrong: The Politics of Latinidad in Los Angeles (in progress) Script Project: How to Make it to the Dance Floor: A Salsa Guide for Women (in progress)
Academic Background Cindy García holds a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. in Dance (UCLA), and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Occidental College in the spring of 2006 where she taught The Politics and Performance of Salsa: Latinidad in Motion and Urban Anthropology: The Performance of Identity in a Global City.
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