Iván-Daniel Espinosa
Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Theatre & Dance

Iván-Daniel Espinosa is a dance choreographer and interdisciplinary scholar that writes about and creates work engaged with mycelium fungi networks, climate change and interspecies performance. He is a current PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼, and also has a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University (NYU)'s Tisch School of the Arts. Primarily inspired by Indigenous environmental philosophy and Eco-Feminism, Iván-Daniel's artwork explores how the vitality and interconnectedness of plant and fungal bodies can be experienced through Live performance. With nearly two decades of experience as a community-engaged artist and event producer, Iván-Daniel belongs to a legacy of process-focused art that constatly finds its inspiration in multicultural collaboration. Iván-Daniel has been invited to present his ecology-themed artwork nationwide at venues such as the world-renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Seattle International Butoh Festival, Houston Fringe Festival, Performática International Forum of Contemporary Dance and Movement Arts at the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Liberating Spatiality and Temporality conference.