Choreographer

Cecilia began choreographing while at the Martha Graham School and earned her Certificate in Composition in 2023. She was recently selected a 2025 Residency Artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center for her latest work, The Erie Canal Project, which commemorated the canal's bicentennial and was performed across New York State including in The Hudson Eye Festival and as an Artist in Residence at Nazareth University. Previously, she presented her choreography at various venues in New York City including BAAD!, The Tank, Dixon Place, the Martha Graham Studio Theater, the Spark Theatre Festival, and the Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association gallery. In 2024, she presented her work, "5 by e.e. cummings" as Movement Migration Dance Company's first Emerging Artist-in-Residence in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was subsequently invited to present excerpts of this same work at the University of New Hampshire and alongside a scholarly paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature. 
 
Cecilia works in a unique contemporary style that is influenced by her training in modern and postmodern dance techniques. Conceptually, her work is inspired by a wide range of subject material, including literature, visual art, music, and history. She believes, as Alvin Ailey said, that dance was created by the people and so should be given back to the people. She makes dances that are adaptable to a wide range of spaces and are created with a diverse audience in mind.
 
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