How Do We Move in Public?
Saturday, May 9, 2026, 4:00-7:00 PM at The Hub, Bronx, NY
Artist Bios
Argelia Arreola is a Bronx-based Mexican dancer, choreographer, and musician, deeply passionate about rhythm and the African influences embedded in diverse artistic expressions. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance from Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico and has received over 23 years of formal training in traditional Guinean dance. Argelia leads her own artistic project, AcustiKorp, where she blends African, Afro-Cuban, and Mexican dance vocabularies through a contemporary lens. She is also a dancer and choreographer with Ballet Nepantla, a soloist performer and musician with La Mezcla Ensamble and a member of the Afro-Mexican band Jarana Beat, highlighting her versatility across dance, music, and percussion. Argelia has performed at prominent Venues and Festivals including Carnegie Hall, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Zócalo of Mexico City, Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, BAM Dance Africa, Festival Danzas Negras CDMX, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Lincoln Center, Battery Dance Festival, Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, Bryant Park Festival, BAAD Bronx. She is a 2025 Bronx Dance Fund Fellow through the Bronx Council on the Arts for the creation of her new choreographic work Hope Made Bread “una historia sobre Las Patronas”, inspired by Las Patronas, Mexico. She is also a recipient of the 2026 Bronx Cultural Visions Grant from the same organization to support the production of this work.
Ana “Rokafella” García is a NYC native of Puerto Rican descent who has represented Women in Hip-hop dance professionally over the past three decades. She co-founded Full Circle Prod Inc- NYC’s only non profit Break Dance Theater company with her husband Bboy Kwikstep generating theater pieces, original poetry and local dance related events. In addition to directing the documentary about Bgirls “All the Ladies Say” she coproduced a Hip hop variety TV show entitled Kwik2Rok fwith Kwiktep for BronxNet TV. She is hired internationally to judge Break dance competitions based on her knowledge of the classic Hip-hop dance style. She has hosted Breakin sessions at various locations in NYC since 1997 including The Point CDC, The Door, High Bridge and Alfred E Smith and had worked with female Japanese Graffiti Writer Shiro to create SHIROKA their T Shirt line4. Presently as an Adjunct Professor at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College, she motivates aspiring dancers to understand the Afro Diasporic roots of Hip hop and Club dance in addition to learning the business side of being an independent artist.
Paloma McGregor is an award-winning choreographer, writer, and arts leader, and the co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse. For nearly two decades, Paloma has created performance works that center communities of color, blending a choreographer’s craft, a journalist’s urgency, and a community organizer’s vision. Through Angela’s Pulse, she has developed two signature programs: Dancing While Black, a platform for community-building and visibility among Black dance artists, and Building a Better Fishtrap, an iterative performance project rooted in her family’s vanishing fishing tradition and questions of heritage, resilience, and belonging. Paloma’s honors include the Herb Alpert Award (2025), Soros Arts Fellowship (2020), Dance/USA Fellowship (2019) and NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award (2017). She has performed at the Venice Biennale, the United Nations, State Department tours to South America and Turkey, and the World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal.
Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary performing artist committed to creating work in and with her community that is rooted in social justice. She is a 2025 EPA Harlem River Artist-in-Residence, 2024 MAP Fund Recipient, 2023-2025 Civic Practice Partnership Artist-in-Residence at the Met Museum, and a 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Awardee. Her work has been presented by The Met Museum, BAAD!, Works and Process/Guggenheim, Pregones Theater, Dancing While Black, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts and the 92Y, to name a few. Alethea trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx, and has a BA in Urban Design from NYU, an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from the City College of New York, and is an adjunct professor at Lehman College.
