Ninoska M’bewe Escobar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of New Mexico, where she was previously an Inclusive Excellence Fellow in Dance. She is an alumna of the Performance as Public Practice program at The University of Texas at Austin and her research and teaching centers the contributions of Black diasporic and artists of color to American arts, history and social politics. In 2023 she directed Roots and Routes, a public program of dance films, community dance classes and artist talks in collaboration with the Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance at The University of New Mexico, the City of Albuquerque Department of Arts and Culture, Albuquerque Main Library, Keshet Center for the Arts and Studio Sway. She was a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Scholar in Theatre Arts and African American Studies at Amherst College, where she convened the symposium African American Dance: Form, Function and Style! to focus attention on the history and contributions of Black diasporic dancers and choreographers to American dance, and was a Lecturer in Dance at Smith College and Visiting Artist in Dance at Mt. Holyoke College. She is a former faculty and administrator at The Ailey School and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation in New York, where she co-directed the Pre-Professional Performing Arts School Program and directed AileyCamp in New York and Miami, as well as a former lead national facilitator of the Ailey organization’s humanities curriculum Revelations: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

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