memory
Imprint
A DANCE FILM
Exploring the ship trade routes between Kaga, Japan and Mexico. Cervera documents sites as a means to remember and document relationships between to powerful locations.
Screenings
2026 Lift-Off Sessions. Dance Film screening
2026 The Movement Project’s Cleveland Dance Fest. Playhouse Square.
2025 Screen dance installation. WPU: Kaga, Japan at the Fusion Residency
RP
II
RP II is the next chapter in Alfonso Cervera's ongoing exploration of memory, rhythm, and the embodied realities of his family's experience with visual impairment. Rooted in the intersection of Mexican Ballet Folklórico and contemporary dance, the work develops choreographic scores that emerge from shifting sensory experiences and alternative ways of perceiving the world. Rather than treating impairment as a limitation, RP II investigates it as a source of movement, composition, and imagination.
This project is generously supported by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, whose funding has made this ongoing research and creative development possible.
Performances
The Ohio State Univeristy , 2026
Barnett Theatre
PENDING PERFORMANCES COMING!!
RP
Retinitis pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa is a rare, inherited degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment, often beginning in early childhood. Cervera's solo dance places his family at the forefront as he archives and revisits shared moments with Maria Casanova and Denise Cervera's lived experiences. Through movement-based explorations, Cervera attempts to acknowledge past events and bring awareness to his family's disability.
Performances
2025 The Movement Project Cleveland Dance Festival. Venue: Playhouse Square. Cleveland, OH
2025 Aimed Dance SummerFest. Venue: LU Department of Theatre & Dance, Studio theatre. Beaumont, TX
2024 Breaking Ground Dance Festival. Venue: Tempe Center for the Arts. Phoenix, AZ
2023 FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival. Venue: ODC Theater. San Francisco, CA
2023 Keshet Makers Space Experience. Venue: Keshet Center for the Arts. Albuquerque, New Mexico
máaxo'ob chan
Rooted in Ballet Folklórico and informed by contemporary improvisational practices, this site-specific work uses folklórico as an impetus for embodied exploration and choreographic discovery. Dancers activate the landscape through movement scores, cultural iconography, and collective imagination, creating a living dialogue between tradition, memory, and place. The work invites audiences to encounter folklórico as an evolving practice—one capable of generating new futures while remaining deeply connected to its cultural roots.
(Full Evening. 4 performers + Cervera. 40 minutes)
Performances
2022 Artists at the Center, The Seattle Center (Seattle, WA)
In-Ti-Mate is a collaborative multi-media dance duet performed by Alfonso Cervera and Hyoin Jun who explore what and how "intimacy" can be developed, shared, and experienced. Using a series of improvisational structures exploring touch and trust, the dancers revel in these concepts as a means to unravel expectations of identity by sensing and experiencing the labor of creating an occasion for each other and audience.
PERFORMANCE
2017 CULVER CENTER OF THE ARTS. RIVERSIDE CA
Shorter
Works
2021 Quien Somos. Venue: Cornish Playhouse, Seattle, WA.
2021 Cenote de Historias. Dance film Screening in Seattle, WA as a film.
2020 Poc-Chuc No. 5. Venue: REDCAT Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 Just a Moment. Venue: Home LA, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 All Around Us. Venue: Ballet Academy in Riverside, CA.
2015 All Around Us. Venue: Tijuana, MX 4x4 Competition
2026 Ritmos Antiguos. Bates College, Lewiston Maine. (12 Dancers, 15 minutes)
2025 Cuerpos de Yum. Western Washington University. Bellingham, WA. (20 Dancers, 6 minutes)
2024 Los 43. Old Dominion University. Norfolk, VA (4 dancers, 9 minutes)
2024 Madre Tierra. Booker T Washington High School?. Dallas, TX (Restaged, 11 dancers, 17:14 minutes)
2023 Las Cosas Que Enterramos. HATCH Residency. Columbus, OH (2 dancers, 20 minutes)
2023 Madre Tierra. University of Milwaukee. WI. (12 dancers, 17:45 minutes)
2023 Samba Para Elvis. David Herrera Dance Company. San Francisco, CA
2022 Chulo Disturbio. Fredonia University. Buffalo, New York (2 dancers, 15 minutes)
2018 Border. Anaheim High School. Anaheim, CA (25 dancers, 10 minutes)
2018 Poc-Chuc Archive II. Irvine Valley College, Dance Department. Irvin, CA (6 dancers, 12:30 minutes)
2018 Poc-Chuc Archive I. Cal State University San Marcos. San Marcos, CA (12 dancers 15 minutes)
2017 Soy Americano. Riverside City College. Riverside, CA. (7 dancers 8 minutes)
Choreographic
commissions