Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Pedro Pablo - Season 4, Episode 59

Pedro Pablo (they/them) is a Venezuelan-raised, Minneapolis-based
queer dancer / performance maker. Founder/director of Viva la
Pepa (www.vivalapepa.org), a collective of multi-generational
queer performers in the Twin Cities. Their works are fueled by
the overlapping values of Latinx and Queer cultures: melodrama,
passion, decadence, and sensuality. An inaugural Jerome Hill
Artist Fellow, Pedro embarked in a collaboration with Argentinian
choreographer Celia Argüello, spending time together in the
southern hemisphere researching bodies and movements in
revolution across the Americas. Viva la Pepa's last work
performed in the US, Holy Doña, re-imagines the crucifixion as a
queer performance ritual; they performed a preliminary duet
iteration of this work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pedro co-directs
a children and family theater program Drag Story Hour, and
entertains the adults at night as their draglesque persona Doña
Pepa. Currently a teaching artist with Upstream Arts and with the
Pillsbury House Theater.