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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.” The Daily Californian, San Francisco- November 17, 2017

"Dance’s origins are anchored in the social. Either as tribute, celebration or mourning, dance is a way of relating to one another. UCR Dance department graduate student Alfonso Cervera’s MFA thesis performance “Poc-Chuc” links the sociality of the audience with the isolated frigidity of the concert stage through an artistic blurring between the two, resulting in a world of untethered Mexican modernity. "  The Highlander, Riverside-May 7, 2017

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