Born in Venezuela, Luis Lara Malvacías is a choreographer, dancer, designer and visual artist. He has danced in the work of Jeremy Nelson (1994 – 2004), David Zambrano, Mark Tompkins, Yoshiko Chuma, and in his own choreography. Performing with the John Jasperse Company at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet in Paris in 1996, he won the Group Performance Award.

He has also being in creative residences at Le Pacific in Grenoble and Labor Gras in Berlin and was a 1998/1999 and 2002/2003 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. He has received support for the creation of his work from, among others the MAP Rockefeller Funds and The Jerome Foundation, and was the recipient of a 2006 NYFA Fellowship for choreography.

He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in New Media. He has presented his work in New York since 1994, including DTW, PS122, Danspace Project, the Kitchen and Joyce SoHo among others. In the United States he has taught, created and presented work in several colleges and institutions. Internationally, he regularly teaches and present work in many countries in Europe, South America, North America and Asia. He has also created work for repertory companies in Venezuela, Italy and the USA and for students at Texas Christian University, Stephen’s College, University of Madison, SEAD in Salzburg, the NSCD in Leeds, England and The Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. He is presently Assistant Professor in the Dance department of the University of California, Riverside.

His choreographic work is presented now under Luis Lara Malvacías/3RD CLASS CITIZEN. He has created several touring performances –installations projects that involve his interest in collaborative multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary projects presented in no- conventional spaces. In 2000 at the Asyl Gallery, NY, he presented Purchase, an interactive performance installation that challenged the usual perspective of viewer and performer: the audience had the opportunity of choosing the dancer(s)-set-music-costumes and seeing their own performances in a chosen installation space. And since 2003 he has been creating and presenting his conceptual artistic object entitled NOT FESTIVAL.

More information about Luis & 3RD CLASS CITIZEN: www.laramalvacias.org

Originally from New Zealand, Jeremy Nelson is a dancer/choreographer and former member of the Siobhan Davies Dancers and Second Stride Dance companies in London, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York. He has also danced in the work of Mia Lawrence, David Zambrano, Susan Rethorst, Luis Lara Malvacías, and in his own work, and with improviser Kirstie Simson. He received a New York Dance and performance “Bessie” Award for outstanding performance and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography in 2004.He also teaches regularly at Movement Research in New York and over the past 30 years has taught classes/workshops in over 30 countries at venues including American Dance Festival, ImPulsTanz, P.A.R.T.S., and the Sasha Waltz Company among others. He was Head of the Dance Education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2009 – 2015 and is currently Associate Arts Professor in the Dance department of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

He has been presenting and performing his own choreography since 1994 and has been produced several times at New York venues such as Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop (now NYLA), PS 122 and the Harkness Dance Festival. He has also shown his work outside of New York, at a number of US colleges, the Painted Bride in Philadelphia, and countries including Argentina, Canada, Chile, England, Finland, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, Peru, Spain, Slovakia, Uruguay and Venezuela. He has been commissioned to create works on companies in Greece, New Zealand, Venezuela and UK, and on students at Connecticut College, SEAD Salzburg, Laban Center England, and the London Contemporary Dance School in London, among others. Most recently, he created Bridges and Doors on Footnote Dance Company in Wellington, New Zealand.

More information about Jeremy: www.jeremynelsondance.org

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