Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre

At the helm of RHDT is Rosie Herrera, a Cuban American performer and choreographer raised in Hialeah who has gone on to have a successful career as a choreographer, director, teacher and interdisciplinary collaborator. Her movement background has its roots in urban dance and Cuban cabaret, and is influenced by her intense study of modern dance, opera, and improvisation.  As a choreographer she has had tremendous success creating work with prestigious companies such as The Jose Limon Dance Company, Pig Iron Theater, New Dialect, and Ballet Hispanico, for which she won a Princess Grace Choreographic Fellowship in 2013.
Under her artistic leadership, RHDT has toured extensively throughout the US, taking them from sold out performances at the prestigious American Dance Festival (ADF), The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County, The Baryshnicov Arts Center NYC, and The Joyce NYC. The company's commitment to collaboration extends not just to their creation process but defines their approach to community engagement. They work closely with community organizers, at home and on tour, to create engagement opportunities for a wide variety of community members. From their "Interfaith" roundtable community discussions, their "ecstatic" community movement choirs and Rosie's wildly successful Brutal Elegance workshop, their work to engage the community has lead to repeat audience viewings and collaborative friendships with communities in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, North Carolina and Martha's Vineyard to name a few. The company has also collaborated with a wide variety of artists, most recently being featured in the Walter Mercado documentary Mucho, Mucho Amor, which is currently being streamed on Netflix.

RHDT has carved a unique space for themselves within the national contemporary dance world by striving for accessibility while not sacrificing the striking imagery and physical virtuosity of their uniquely tropical aesthetic.