Paz Tanjuaquio
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PAZ TANJUAQUIO (she/her/hers) has been active in New York City since 1990 as a choreographer, performer, visual artist, educator, and is a 7-time marathon runner. Paz is Co-Founding Director of TOPAZ ARTS, Inc - a creative development center for contemporary performance and visual arts founded in 2000 with collaborator Todd B. Richmond. She currently serves as Chair of the Steering Committee for The Bessies/NY Dance and Performance Awards, and is a member of the NYS DanceForce since 2009.
Her work has been presented by Wassaic Projects, LaMaMa Moves Dance Festival, 92Y Harkness Dance Center, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Performance Space New York (formerly PS122), Aaron Davis Hall, Symphony Space, Dixon Place, Thelma Hill Performing Arts, Yangtze Repertory, among others; nationally, at Operation Unite in Hudson NY, San Diego Trolley Dance, Philadelphia Fringe Festival; and internationally at Le Commun, Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland, and residencies in Cambodia, Japan, Korea and her birthplace, the Philippines. Awards include City Artist Corp Grant, United States Artist Relief, National Endowment for the Arts, Dance NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD Award, Queens Council on the Arts, and the Suitcase Fund where she participated in the Mekong Project’s Cambodia Creative Residency and artistic research travel in Vietnam. Dance films made in collaboration with Todd B. Richmond have been selected at Fifth Wall Fest 2020, American Dance Festival International Screen Dance, Queens Museum, and Dance on Camera Festival at the Donnell Media Center. She has been an artist-in-residence at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli, NY, Akiyoshidai International Art Village in Japan, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and Movement Research in NYC.
As a dancer, she has performed with Molissa Fenley and Dancers since 1997 and Marlies Yearby’s Movin’ Spirits Dance Theater from 1991-96, and has performed for numerous artists including Nicky Paraiso, Dean Moss, Carl Hancock Rux, Maureen Fleming, Clarinda Mac Low, among others.
She teaches movement as Adjunct at The New School/College of Performing Arts and at NYU Tisch School of the Arts/ Experimental Theater Wing; and taught Dance full-time at SUNY/Nassau Community College from 2018-2020. She has been a guest artist at Sacramento State University, CUNY/Queens College, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, and Vargas Museum at Univ. of the Philippines.
She received her MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and her BA in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego.
http://www.topazarts.org/topaz-arts-dance-productions/