Spring Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Iris Viveros is joined by UW students in Music and Dance and special guests, including musicians from the Seattle Fandango Project, in this concert celebrating Son Jarocho music and dance traditions of Vera Cruz, Mexico. The performance marks the conclusion of her spring quarter UW course, co-taught with Dance professor Monica Rojas, focused on zapateado (foot percussion) traditions in Mexico and Peru, with a special focus on women’s roles and perspectives.

Biography

Iris C. Viveros Avendaño, PhD.  was born and raised in Mexico. Her academic interests emphasize the integration of third-world feminist approaches to analyzing colonial legacies in present-day systems of violence. She focuses on the role of state-mediated technologies of power in perpetuating violence against Afro indigenous [descent] women and communities at large. In addition,Iris’ scholarly work focuses on the connection between polyrhythmic collective music-making as a decolonial temporality and a practice of resistance, recovery, and healing from trauma. A central focus in her scholarly work is the analysis of the feminized body in fandango–In its collective and individual manifestation– as a decolonial space where knowledge is produced, negotiated, and transmitted.