venese alcantar is a movement practitioner, choreographer and educator. alcantar’s work challenges notions of gender and sexuality, the female archetype within the family and the body as landscape. Within her work the observer will find varied explorations of corporeal wit, human narratives through anthropomorphic expressions and the intermingling acts of birthing and composting. Her work has shown at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, The Mesa House, the Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS, Cossit Hall at Colorado College and the Terri Goodhue Gallery. alcantar has worked with Ormao Dance Colorado Springs, Pantera, HIJACK, Larry Keigwin and Body Shift, among others. In 2015, she was an artist in residence with Pantera, while conjunctively teaching at Kazan University of Culture and Art in Kazan, Russia. In addition, some of alcantar's teaching experience includes the teaching residency at the Beulah School of Natural Sciences, adjunct at the Colorado Springs Conservatory, A Positive Note Program for people with mixed abilities, instructor for the Mathtastic education-through-dance program, Danza facilitator for the Danza program at the Indigenous Cultures Institute and the DEL Arnhold Summer Fellowship. She would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land we live, move and create on.
Photo by Sarah Annie Navarrete.