Rogelio Lopez
Rogelio Lopez (choreographer, dancer, lighting/set/costume designer, producer) holds an MFA from California State University, Long Beach. He is the artistic director of Rogelio Lopez & Dancers (RL&D) and Full Professor/Director of the Dance program at St. Mary’s College. He has been nominated for three Isadora Duncan Awards–Outstanding Visual Design, Ensemble Performance, and Choreography–winning Outstanding Visual Design and Choreography for Entre Despierto y Dormido in 2024. RL&D finished bronze in the Best of the East Bay competition for Best Dance Company in 2024. Since 2005, Rogelio has been a member of Keith Johnson & Dancers and teaches regularly at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Oakland, California.
About RL&D
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Rogelio Lopez & Dancers (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. 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, growing, 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 has a Queer, Mexican-American, “lower class background” voice, 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.