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Lydia Platón Lázaro, Ph.D. is an independent professor, curator, writer, performer, cultural producer, and promoter. She is part of the work group of Taller Comunidad la Goyco, a community collective, developing cultural projects for peaceful co-habitation in the Machuchal neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received an Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship (2019) for her project Novenario (MAC MUSEUM, SJ,PR), a reflection on the arts and mourning practices in contemporary art of Puerto Rico, stemming from the Hurricane María experience. She hosted a curatorial platform at Taller Comunidad la Goyco, called: “Nos conocimos en los 90” with the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative, a Mellon Foundation and University of Austin, and Northwestern University funded project. Her publications include Defiant Itineraries: Caribbean Paradigms in American Dance and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Ecos Huecos (La Impresora, 2021) and articles about Dance, Theater, and Performance in journals and anthologies, such as "Screaming Soundscapes: The Sounds of Puerto Rican Contemporary Performance in the Work of Teresa Hernández and Ivette Román” Writing the Body; Staging the Other.(Macfarland press, Brynn Shiovits Ed., 2018) and, “The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation.” Inhabiting the Impossible, Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico (University of Michigan Press, Susan Homar and Nibia Pastrana, Ed., 2023).

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