Ruby Morales is a dance artivist investigating culturally informed teaching methods and her relationship with movement as a bgirl and Mexican influenced cumbia Sonidera. After receiving a BFA from Arizona State University she completed Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute, PISAB’s Undoing Racism Training, and trained in breaking with b-boy House, Ervin Arana, b-boy Stuntman and hip hop philosophy/theory with YNOT. She’s currently working with Liz Lerman, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and Tucson based artist Yvonne Montoya. She recently premiered her grant funded evening length show, “Breakin’ Pachanga”and is a 2021 NALAC Advocacy Leadership Fellow and a 2021 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow.
