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The Board

  • Herna Cruz-Louie
  • Kiazi Malonga
  • Carmen Roman
  • Blanche Brown
  • Victor Torres​
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Carmen Roman is a dancer, choreographer, educator, filmmaker, scholar, and the founding artistic director of Cunamacué, an Oakland based dance company which promotes the continuity of Afro-Peruvian culture not as a point in time, but as a living, vibrant and evolving form whose music and dance can be used as a means of contemporary expression. Raised both in Lima, Peru, and in the San Francisco Bay Area her work is deeply rooted in Afro-Peruvian dance vocabulary and also uses movements inspired by other dances of the African Diaspora and modern dance.

Her article, “The Danced Spirituality of African Descendants in Peru”, was published in a special edition of the African Performance Review (2013). In 2015-2016 Carmen was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship in Dance to Peru to research Afro-Peruvian dance through practice, performance, and observation. Her dance documentary “Herencia de Un Pueblo (Inheriting a Legacy )” shot in El Carmen, Peru, was awarded Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2016) and has screened in various cities across the U.S. and internationally in England, Tanzania, and Canada. In 2018 she was part of NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. In 2019 she was awarded the Mythili Kumar Emerging Artist Award and was commissioned to create new work for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.

Carmen has been teaching dance for over ten years to children and adults in the Bay Area and in rural communities in El Salvador and Peru. She holds a BA in Dance from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Dance from Mills College.

Carmen also holds a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting and currently owns a tax preparation and bookkeeping LLC. She is excited to be joining the board at World Arts West.

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  • Home
  • Performances & Events
    • Annual Festival >
      • 2023 WAW Dance Festival >
        • Festival Details >
          • Welcome
          • Performance Schedule
        • The Artists
        • Festival Team and Funders
      • 2022 WAW Dance Series >
        • WAW Dances in the Park >
          • The Artists
        • First Sundays at the Presidio
      • 2021 SFEDF Film
      • SFEDF Archives
    • Artist Dialogues >
      • Living Traditions >
        • 2021
        • 2020 >
          • Season 1
          • Season 2
      • Live Arts In Resistance
    • In Partnership >
      • Bay Area Dance Week
      • Asian Art Museum
      • Afro Urban Society
  • Artist Services
    • Career Pathways Roundtable
    • Professional Development Workshops
    • Special Artist Commissions >
      • Migrations
      • 5th Quarter Bantaba
      • Ipat a Kadsakay
  • support
    • Funders and Partners
  • About
    • Mission & Vision
    • Racial Equity Statement
    • Strategic Plan
    • Staff & Board
    • Press & News
    • Contact Us