REBECA GAMBORINO

Rebeca Gamborino is a mother, educator, and multi-disciplinary dance artist. Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and raised in San Antonio, Texas, her lived experience as a mother and Mexicana residing in the United States informs her artistry and pedagogy. With 25 years of dance training and 18 years of teaching experience, Rebeca has worked and choreographed for award-winning companies and studios, including the University of Texas at Austin's dance team. She is the former director of the St. Edward's University Dance Team in Austin, Texas, and is currently the assistant director for Synergy Dance Company.  

As an artist, Rebeca primarily works with dance, film, and text. Her creations for the stage and screen investigate identity and how societal constructs can limit and suppress the complexities of being human. Her work employs dance-making as storytelling as a type of activism.

Rebeca's choreographed and performed her work at various dance festivals, including 10 Min Max in Austin, the Texas Dance Improv Festival in Houston, the Austin Dance Festival, The Austin Choreographer's Ball: Dance to Breathe in Austin, Texas, and World Dance Alliance Americas in Corpus Christi, TX. She has had the privilege of choreographing and performing for The Dance Project, a collaborative dance company in Austin, Texas. Rebeca was also a Muscle Memory Dance Theatre member, a contemporary dance company based in Dallas, Texas. Recently, she performed with the Andrea Torres Dance Company, a contemporary jazz dance company based in Austin, Texas, for five seasons. Her dance films have screened at the 2019 ATX Dance Summer Film Festival, the 2021 Red Rock Screen Dance Film Festival in Utah, the Makers in Motion MFA Film Festival in North Carolina, FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, and the Dance Studies Association Conference in New Jersey.

Rebeca holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Texas State University. She recently moved from Austin to Denton with her partner and son to pursue her Masters of Fine Arts at Texas Woman's University. During her time at TWU, she's been a member and choreographer for the International Dance Company, serves as a division of dance graduate student assistant, and is the dance recruitment coordinator. For the past year, Rebeca has been the graduate coordinator for the Quakertown Reflections: Moving in Community workshop and helped develop the workshop based on scholarly and embodied research of Quakertown. She is a recent recipient of the 2022 Graduate Council Award for Exceptional, Original Scholarship, and a 2021-2022 Experiential Student Scholar.

Additionally, Garcia has worked closely with Socorro ISD and El Paso ISD; he was commissioned to present his work at El Paso Community College and hold a contemporary modern dance residency. His work has been showcased regionally at the Reel East Texas Film Festival, informal/ adjudicated concerts at the American College Dance Association, Texas State Art in the Park, Texas State Student Showcase, Instituto de Arquitectura, Diseño y Arte Cd Juarez Chihuahua, Universidad Autonomá de Chihuahua, Mexico. Recently, Garcia had the privilege to present work internationally at the COCO Dance Festival in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Contact Dance International Dance Festival in Toronto, Ontario. Mr. Garcia is a performer & Movement artist interested in nontraditional partnering and distortion of the body while creating movement. He currently resides in the DFW Metroplex attending Texas Woman’s University as an MFA candidate in the Department of Dance, where he also serves as the Publicity Coordinator.