Manuel Macias

Manuel “Manny” Macias is an interdisciplinary artist from the areas East of the 605 (Southern California). He is a founding member of Mechanism Dancetheatre Collective, a Pomona-based project that centers de-colonial performance movements/practices/processes/experiments in the areas “East of the 605.” He is also a collaborator/instigator with FEK-MAC, a bicoastal (NYC/LA) experimental performance project with Gayle Fekete. His research/practice explores the body and the border, storytelling, transnational migrations, and the way that people are choreographed and choreograph themselves with and against the nation-state. Macias holds a BA in Ethnic Studies from Cal Poly Pomona and an MFA in Dance from Cal State Long Beach. Macias is currently a third-year doctoral student in critical dance studies at the Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside.

  • Critical Fabulation as Historical and Choreographic Method
  • Experimental Dance Performance
  • the U.S./Mexico Border
  • Transnational Migration
  • Social Choreography
Manny Macias outside against a pink sky dressed with foil and seen from a low grass eye level