Rogelio Lopez Garcia

Professional Overview

Rogelio Lopez
跳舞

Rogelio Lopez is a dancer, choreographer, costume, lighting, and scenic designer with an MFA in 跳舞 from California State University Long Beach. Rogelio has danced professionally for Vox Theater, PTERO 跳舞 Company, Los Angeles Contemporary 跳舞 Company, Keith Johnson, Hope Mohr, Joe Goode, Ledges and bones, Nina Haft, Davalos 跳舞 Company, and many others.  He has set work as a guest artist for Copious 跳舞 Company, Loyola Marymount University, Cerritos College, Fresno State University, Modesto Jr. College, Texas A&M University, San Jose State University, Scottsdale Community College, Wild Wood Secondary School, and the Shawl- Anderson Youth Ensemble. His choreography has been presented by the American College 跳舞 Association, in Gala Performances and at National College 跳舞 Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Rogelio has won three Lester Horton awards, two as a dancer and one as scenic designer and was also a winner at the United States Institute of Theater Technology for "Best Student Set Design" in Region VIII. 

Rogelio also directs his own dance company, Rogelio Lopez & 舞者. RL&D is a modern dance company established in 2015. RL&D believes that dance speaks a universal language that pulls at the core of human existence. Rogelio believes that by letting the body speak, we create a “body literacy” that generates a real and present connection between people. RL&D seeks to spread this “body literacy” within and beyond the Bay Area borders, by actively being involved in this local, 日益增长的, and vibrant dance art scene.  RL&D heralds the importance of the individual voice, and that when shared and filtered through integral craft, has a universally binding significance. Rogelio Lopez’ voice stems from his Queer, Mexican-American, “lower class background,” that neither denies, nor engulfs the person and artist that he is. Through Rogelio Lopez’s particular use of the embodied dancer, a spacious, weighted, unaffected-virtuosity of disarming dance comes through and has the capability to transform.

Rogelio teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate 跳舞 Program. He is the Director of the MFA in 跳舞, which has two degrees, Creative Practice and Design and Production.