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The company has been presented by (University of California San Diego) UCSD’s University Events Office (UEO), the National Dance Series, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art’s Arts Partnership Program, and San Diego's Sushi Performance and Visual Arts. In 1999 the company was featured as the only American dance troupe at the “Tanz in Olten International Dance Festival” in Switzerland, and the “Cuerpos Entransito International Dance Festival” at the Centro Cultural Tijuana Performing Arts Center, to name a few.
Over the past seven years Ms. Rincon has been rediscovering her latina roots, traveling throughout Mexico, and especially to San Miguel de Allende, where she has been building a contemporary dance community at the Bellas Artes Cultural Art Center there. She has received numerous UCSD Research in the Arts grants to develop her artistic work and present her company in San Miguel, in addition to creating her film documentaries “Project Contemporary Dance San Miguel de Allende,” and “The Walls Have Memories,” which premiered in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and San Diego. The Myth Project I toured to San Miguel de Allende in November of 2006 and was performed in a huge performing arts circus tent (La Carpa) there.
"The Space Between Here and There," from UCSD's March 2007 Dance Alive at Mandel Weiss Theatre, La Jolla, Calif. Photo By Manuel Rotenberg. |
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Patricia was also the recipient of the Fifth Annual California Center for the Arts Escondido 1999 "Arts Education Achievement Award." And in October of that year she was again honored with the North County Latino Association's "Latina of the Year for Arts and Culture" award, again at the California Center for the Arts, for her work with Latino youth -- Mexican/American teenagers standing in the place where she once stood. In August 2005 Patricia celebrated her 20th-anniversary as artist-in-residency at both the University of Heidelberg and the University of Frankfurt, in Germany. Patricia is Head of Dance in the UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance, former Chair of the Encinitas (Calif.) Arts Commission and former board member of SUSHI Performance and Visual Arts. She is an aspiring painter in her spare time. PRDC also produces the one of the most widely-known salsa classes in San Diego each week since 1999. Voted "Best Salsa Class in San Diego" in 2008 by San Diego Magazine. |
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Each summer Patricia typically leads modern dance workshops in Zurich, Bern, Olten and, occasionally, Lugano, Switzerland; also in Constance, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Darmstadt, Germany. This year Patricia completes her 14th set of instructional videos on both Modern and Jazz Dance for European distribution. Over the years the PRDC has consistently received ongoing support from numerous organizations including the California Arts Council, The San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, The University of California San Diego Research Grants (for choreography), San Diego County Enhancement Grants, Las Patronas of La Jolla, Price Charities, The Beverly and John Stauffer Foundation, among others. |
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