Pedra Pepa

My name is Pedra Pepa, I am based in Minneapolis via Venezuela. I am a performance maker working through overlapping values of queer and Latinx lenses: melodrama, passion, decadence and sensuality. Movement, like water, is life. I observe movement in how we relate with one another, with nature, with the world around us.

I’m a Jerome fellowship for Dance (’19-’21) and McKnight for choreography Fellowship (’22) recipient. Over the years I’ve spent time in Latin America for a collaboration that bloomed into a month long run of a duet in Buenos Aires in 2023. My latest solo work, TRANSUBSTAN (2023), emerges from an embodied practice developed in natural settings—Armila, Guna Yala, 2022.

I’m a teaching artist working with Upstream Arts, with and alongside the disability community, supporting programming for social and communication skills, self advocacy skills, and sexual abuse prevention/sex ed. I also teach movement and expression to pre-schoolers at the pillsbury house theater.

I’m a co-director of Drag Story Hour, theatrical productions. Our most recent musical Adventurama, features original songs and puppets, traveling around Minnesota spreading joy and creativity.