California State University, Long Beach
Department of Dance
- email: dorcas@dancechoreography.com
- office phone: 562.985.4747
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Dorcas Román is a dancer, choreographer and actress native of Puerto Rico. She received her BA in theater from the University of Puerto Rico and an MFA in choreography and performance from the U.C.L.A department of dance. Román has been active in dance and theater for over 15 years, teaching, dancing, and choreographing in and outside of the United States. She has presented her work in cities such as Los Angeles, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Brasilia, Brazil. Dorcas has also worked with dance and theater productions for International Art Festivals in cities such as: Caracas and Barcelona; Venezuela, Buenos Aires & Corrientes; Argentina, New York City, Brasilia; Brazil, Santo Domingo; Dominican Republic, San Juan, Dorado, and Ponce among other cities in Puerto Rico, and Los Angeles; California. She specialized in Contact Improvisation, Release, and Dance-Theatre, Latin Jazz, Flamenco and uses West African dance as well as Horton Technique in her work. She is the artistic director of Dorcas Roman Dancetheatre based in Los Angeles, California. She is the resident choreographer for the MYE Theater Company.
She is also a method actress who has studied extensively techniques such as: Stanislavsky, Grotovski, Augusto Boal and the anthropological theater, Antonin Artaud and the absurdists among others. She worked with Collage Dance Theater, which specializes in site-specific work, for over 6 years. She has been active in film in the past few years and still performs any time she has a chance to do so.
Her work "Subtle Fragmentations" was presented at the Downtown Water Gardens as part of the Praxis Project of and at the 2002 Sola Contemporary dance festival. She presented her choreography at the California Choreographers Dance Festival in Laguna Beach, California (2002 and 2005). She produced and choreographed her second (professional) concert in 2004 at Santa Monica playhouse and choreographed for the Toyota symphonies for the youth series at the Walt Disney Hall during the winter of 2004. Roman presented her work in her native country of Puerto Rico in 2005. She work on the Praxis project again in 2005 presenting a new commission work in which she work with students from the workshop and spoken word artist Bridget Gray to create a new work called I am a woman (like the poem it inspired it). Dorcas Roman is extremely happy to be part of the CSULB family where she teaches Flamenco and Latin Jazz.
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