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Norbert De La Cruz III

Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Pictured is Norbert De La Cruz III.

Education

  • M.F.A., Dance, Hollins University
  • B.F.A, The Juilliard School

Courses Taught

  • Modern I
  • Contemporary Partnering
  • Composition III
  • Improvisation

Background

Born in Bayombong Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, and raised in Los Angeles, California, Norbert De La Cruz III is a collaborative artist with roots in classical and contemporary dance. His interests are vast: from the limits of representation, post-migratory identity, the depths of our contemporariness, imperfection, queerness and desire, loneliness, ceaseless liminality, and an endless desire to make everlasting art, De La Cruz III strives to make the invisible visible. He wants to be a representative of the dance world for his communities and to represent his communities in dance, casting his work as an extension of them.

Curriculum Vitae


Professional Memberships or Affiliations

  • SAG-AFTRA 
  • AGMA 

Choreographic Highlights

Film/TV

  •  In the Heights Musical Movie, ensemble dancer, 2020

Performance - Soloist Dancer

  • Joe Goode Performance Group, 2020
  • Complexions Contemporary Ballet, 2013
  • Aspen Sante Fe Ballet, 2013
  • Lustig Dance Theatre, 2012
  • Balleto Teatro Di Torino, 2011
  • Sydney Skybetter and Associates, 2011
  • Aszure Barton and Artists, 2010
  • Metropolitan Opera House, Aida, 2009

Selected Choreography

  • Present Tense, Conflux Dance Theater, 2024
  • The Mermaid Drags You Under, Olympic Ballet Theatre, 2023
  • Sincerely Yours, Owen Cox Dance, 2023
  • Semblance, Golden State Ballet, 2023 
  • Critical Mass, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, 2023
  • Arrive, Bruce Woods Dance, 2023
  • Bird's Eye View, Richmond Ballet, 2023
  • Cloud 9, Saint Louis Dance Theater, 2021
  • Fluency, The Juilliard School New Dances, 2021
  • Reintegrate, Point Park University Contemporary Choreographers Concert, 2021
  • Glitch, Guggenheim Works & Process, 2021
  • Generation 1.5, Hollin University Thesis Performance, 2019
  • Talsik, Ballet X, 2015
  • Fourth Wall, Tulsa Ballet II, 2014
  • Square None, Aspen Sante Fe Ballet, 2012 

Research Interests

  • Post-Migratory Identity 
  • Asian American Studies in Contemporary Dance 
  • Critical Issues in Dance

Awards and Honors

  • Princess Grace Foundation, nominee, choreography, Aspen Sante Fe Ballet 
  • Top 25 to Watch, choreography, Dance Magazine, January 2016
  • New York City Ballet, Choreographic Institute, 2017 and 2018 recipient, NYCB, Peter Martins
  • Asian Arts Alliance, Jadin Wong Honorable Mention
  • McCallum Theatre Division II finalist, choreography, Maple Youth Conservatory
  • National Choreographic Initiative, choreography, Irvine Barclay Theatre
  • Winning Works Choreography Competition, choreography, Joffrey Academy of Dance
  • New Directions Choreography Lab, choreography, Alvin Ailey School
  • International Choreographic Competition, choreography, Hubbard Street 2
  • New Essential Works Program, choreography grant, Jerome Robbins Foundation 

Publication

  • Generation 1.5: Choreographing Myself into Existence, Hollins University Thesis 

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