Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz

Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz’s research moves across the entanglements created by performance and critical dance studies, illegality and citizenship, border studies, and critical phenomenology. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a research and teaching focus on creative ethnography and (Afro)Latinx/Latin American undocumented cultural production. His writing can be found in Performance Philosophy, Theatre Research International, Dance Research Journal, and other publications. In addition to writing about performance’s role in transforming society and ideas of citizenship, he is a choreographer and dancer. Through a creative process he calls “The Expanse,” he makes bilingual performances that have been presented internationally. He’s currently also presenting work with NAKA Dance Theater.

Creative ethnography and (Afro)Latinx/Latin American undocumented cultural production.