Patricia Rincon

office: Galbraith Hall 223
email: princon@ucsd.edu

Biography

PATRICIA RINCON (MFA, USIU School of Performing and Visual Arts) Dance Faculty. Patricia is the founder and artistic director of PATRICIA RINCON DANCE COLLECTIVE. She has directed and toured her company throughout the US, Mexico, and Europe regularly since 1982. She herself has performed, directed and choreographed over thirty major works in the US and Europe- as well as conducted many dance workshops as artist-in-residence - at academies and universities in Switzerland, Germany, France and Japan the past 19 years. Her choreography has toured Switzerland and Germany via numerous dance companies, most recently Ursula Berger's "Tanz Art," and Elfi-Shafer-Schafroth's"Bits and Pieces." She has twice produced "Kultur Mix" International DANCE Festival, bringing together international dancers and choreographer from Mexico, Switzerland and the US for a production at The Sushi Visual and Performing Arts Space in downtown San Diego. She has been faculty at UCSD for over 20 years. Patricia also directs a number of outreach programs for children, including the Jr. Ensemble troupe, a performing youth group between the ages of 8-16. With each PRDC concert she routinely invites 300 inner-city kids to a carte blanche dance experience. Patricia is also the winner of The San Diego Area Dance Alliances Tommy Award for best San Diego jazz choreographer for 1997.