Vanessa Sanchez

She is a chicana dancer, choreographer, educator and producer who focuses on community arts and traditional dance forms to emphasize voices and experiences of latina, chicana, and indigenous womxn and youth. Based in San Francisco, she is a 2019 Dance/USA Artist Fellow and the founding Artistic Director of La Mezcla. Sanchez’s work has been featured on local and international stages including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), The Lincoln Center (NY), Teatro Maria Matos (Portugal). Her work with La Mezcla has received the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Production, Best Sound and Original Score Award for the WildSound Film Festival, and project funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network and the Hewlett Foundation. She has been a featured guest artist and lecturer with organizations including UC Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, and the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy. Sanchez is currently an artist in residence at Brava! For Women in the Arts and a Dance Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz.