Highways Performance Space (Executive Director, Leo Garcia & Artistic Director, Patrick Kennelly)

& Zaquia Luisa Salinas Present

Zaquia Luisa Salinas is a dance artist invested in movement as an act of reclamation and world-building. Her work engages diasporic memory, practices for collective liberation, and interdisciplinary form, centering collaboration and response-ability. She works as a performer, choreographer, educator, curator, administrator, producer, and organizer. Originally from San Diego, Zaquia is the founder and Director Emerita of DISCO RIOT. In addition to creating and performing her own work, she is currently Resident Curator at ODC Theater in San Francisco, teaches in higher education, and developing Ephemeral Artery (a platform supporting creative practice and project development). Learn more at EphemeralArtery.org.

Guillermo Castro is a NYC-based dancer and choreographer from San Diego, CA. He holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from UC Santa Barbara. There he performed works by José Limón, Shen Wei, Andrea Shermoly, Stephanie Miracle, Brandon Whited, Nancy Colahan, and Ephrat Ashire. Guillermo has toured with LitvakDance (SD) and DISCO RIOT (SD) and has performed with Santa Barbara Dance Theater under Christopher Pilafian, and Jean Isaac’s San Diego Dance Theater. Other performance credits include, Unity Dance Ensemble, Selah Dance Collective, and works by Khamla Somphanh. He is a freelance performer, while also working on his own choreographic endeavors.

Sergio Barrientos is a freelance dance artist based in NYC. Originally from California, he began his formal dance training at the age of 14. He received a BFA in dance from UC Santa Barbara where he was fortunate enough to work with faculty and guest artists including Monica Bill Barnes, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Doug Elkins, Ephrat Asherie, and works by José Limón reconstructed by Alice Condodina. Since moving to New York, he’s been training in floorwork techniques, and working with local choreographers.