Manuel Macias

Manuel “Manny” Macias is an interdisciplinary artist from the areas east of the 605 (Southern California). He is a founding member of Mechanism Dancetheatre Collective, a Pomona-based dance project that centers decolonial performance movements/practices in the areas “East of the 605.” He is also a collaborator/ instigator with FEK-MAC, a bicoastal (NYC/LA) experimental dancetheatre performance project with Gayle Fekete. His artistic/research practice explores the body and borders, storytelling, transnational migrations, and the way that people are moved and move themselves with and against the nation-state. In addition, Macias teaches contemporary movement and dance ethnography/ history/theory courses at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Long Beach. Macias holds a BA in Ethnic Studies from Cal Poly Pomona and an MFA in Dance from Cal State Long Beach. Macias is currently a doctoral student in Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside.