Charly is a dancer, choreographer, director and writer dedicated to forging interdisciplinary connections across diverse artistic mediums and practices. She is currently an MFA candidate at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Upon graduating with highest honors from Rutgers University in 2017, she founded contemporary dance company mignolo dance with her sister Eriel, which has expanded into a 501-c3 nonprofit arts organization that runs an arts center, interdisciplinary publication, and more. Her dance work has been shown extensively throughout the tristate area as well as in Boston, Atlanta, Israel, Italy, and at many international film festivals. Her writing has been published in The Dance Enthusiast, Dance Informa, thINKingDANCE, NJ Indy, and several literary magazines. Charly was awarded a 2023 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Charly’s research focuses on the connections between diverse artistic mediums. She is currently developing a long term project called Movenglish®: a movement language with a word-to-word correspondence to English that seeks to preserve and embody the nuances of written/spoken language. She believes that such translations disrupt preconceived notions of Western dance’s formal and aesthetic limitations, making visible relationships between dance and other artistic mediums which often go unnoticed. Because dance spaces and political spaces persist within the same affective contexts, they have the power to reciprocally determine each other. By rupturing the boundaries that partition experience, artistic translation can be used to dismantle prevailing power structures and work toward establishing more equitable communities.
Charly currently lives in Philadelphia, PA, and is open to travel for teaching, choreography, and performance opportunities.
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