02/15/2024
🇵🇪Peruvian dance workshop at UIUC!!🇵🇪 More information and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ildeo-conference-2024-tickets-738645086337
Meet 2024 Conference Presenter, Rubén Pachas!
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Rubén Pachas is a Peruvian Indigenous Dance Teacher, Social Justice Arts performances producer, Choreographer, Dancer, and drum musician. Pachas has been teaching abroad and in the US since 2004. His love of indigenous dance started at age 5 when in Peru his parents showed him their traditions and later, he was dancing in “Matices Peruanos - Folk Cultural institution”. He has been doing dance research and field work since 1993 in different indigenous regions such as the Andes, coast, and jungle. He received a BA in Arts Education from Dance from National Higher Education School of Folklore “Jose Maria Arguedas” Mayor in Peruvian Folk Dance in Minor in Education in Peru in 2002 and recently he obtained his Master of Arts in Arts Education from School of the Arts Institute of Chicago (SAIC) focusing on Teaching Peruvian Indigenous Dance to Non- Indigenous People for cultural values in 2020.
Pachas began teaching indigenous dance to his classmates in his last year of high school. His students won the Peruvian Folk Dance National Champion three consecutive years 1999, 2000, 2001. When he arrived in the USA, he taught in the Chicago Public Schools for 13 years teaching and producing the Intercultural Latin-American Dance program for many elementary schools, a project from National Louis University and America Baila Arts organization having 150 students on the stage with different cultures from Latin-American. He also was Dance Professor in Symposiums and Continuous Training Courses as Waukegan Public School, ARTECH and COHORT projects ( Arts and technologies projects) from 2004 until 2019, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2022 and 2023, Oak Park District 97 at Dance Training to Music Department Staff and Dominican University Performing Arts Center. Pachas is Fine Arts and Spanish teacher at St. Roberts Bellarmine school in Chicago and Spanish teacher at St. John Brebeuf school in Niles. He is the founder together with Jessica Loyaga of the Center of Peruvian Arts which was previously the Peruvian Folk Dance Center.
