Interview with Canyon Carballosa

An interview with Canyon Carballosa, a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD)-educated dance instructor. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students Hannah Steuer and Olivia Stitely, Carballosa discusses their upbringing in central Florida, time in New York and Los Angeles and introduction into professional dance, their thoughts on dance's significance, gendering and gender roles in the dance world, their relationship to movement as a trans person, and their thoughts on improv, movement as healing, and the politics of dance, their time with YPAD and the lessons they learned there, and their visions of the future.

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Identifier: 7h149q16q
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Carballosa, Canyon
Contributor(s): Brenner-Adam, Katherine
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Steuer, Hannah
Stitely, Olivia
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Nov. 11, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Places: New York
California > Los Angeles County > Los Angeles
Topic(s): Choreographers
Dancers
Gender roles
Non-binary people
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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