

las cosas

In collaboration with Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez,“las cosas que enter(r)amos” looks at the ways in which Latine social dance aesthetics are queered through migration, clubbing, and ritual. The duet, grounded in Latine social dance improvisations and performance, investigates queer bodies and queer clubs as ofrendas (altars). The work underscores Latin American social dance technologies of storytelling, grooving, sudor, confetti, hierbas, and altar-making, as sites of queer belonging and as methods to re-member queer bodies. The work situates queer dancefloors and nightlife as a space to archive queer ways of being honoring’s, migrations, and remembrance. We trace the residues of queer nightlife and pleasure to honor, reflect upon, and theorize how queer social dance movement acts as routes, mobilities, and archives for queer bodies.



Performances
2026 Venue: RedCat Roy and Edna Disney Hall. Los Angeles, CA. NOW Festival Artists
2026 Venue: Kalamazoo, MI. Short Work Series and RAD Encore Performance. RADfest 2026
2025 Venue: Paige Center of the Arts, Chicago. IL Chicago Latinx/e Contemporary Movement Festival.
2025 Venue Judson Church, Movement Research. New York, NY
2023 Venue: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH – Commissioned
“Another highlight was Alfonso Cervera and Irvin Gonzalez’s incredibly athletic duet. They balanced genuine intimacy with cheeky humor and abstracted political commentary. Their duet, entitled “Q-lucha” was a queer reframing of luchador machismo. With their slow, tender partnering interspersed with aggressive wrestling, the luchador masks that obscured their faces, and the sounds of an “English Basic Phrases” instructional tape, Cervera and Gonzalez both counteracted and ironically exaggerated stereotypes of Mexican masculinity.” Yvonne
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Performances
Q-Chula-15 minutes
2019 venue: Judson Memorial Church. New York, NY
2017 Venue: Highways Performance Space. QUEER Behold Festival. Santa Monica, CA
2017 Venue: Dance Mission Theatre. FLACC Festival. San Francisco, CA