
Manuel Macias
Lecturer
Dance, College of Performing Arts
Office Location: Sandi Simon Center for Dance
Email: manmacias@chapman.edu
Biography
Manuel “Manny” Macias is an interdisciplinary artist from the areas east of the 605
(Southern California). He is a founding member of Mechanism Dancetheatre Collective,
a Pomona-based dance project that centers decolonial performance movements/practices
in the areas “East of the 605.” He is also a collaborator/ instigator with FEK-MAC,
a bicoastal (NYC/LA) experimental dancetheatre performance project with Gayle Fekete.
His artistic/research practice explores the body and borders, storytelling, transnational
migrations, and the way that people are moved and move themselves with and against
the nation-state. In addition, Macias teaches contemporary movement and dance ethnography/
history/theory courses at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Long Beach. Macias holds a
BA in Ethnic Studies from Cal Poly Pomona and an MFA in Dance from Cal State Long
Beach. Macias is currently a doctoral student in Critical Dance Studies at the University
of California, Riverside.