Minerva Tapia
Minerva Tapia is a Mexican-American choreographer, educator and company director of the Minerva Tapia Dance Group. Tapia received a bachelor's degree in dance at the Gloria Campobello School of Dance in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of California, Irvine in 2006.
She has honed her art at dance studios in Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, Brazil, Canada, and Turkey, and also in Cuba, where she studied for seven years. Her teaching achievements are recognized throughout northwestern Mexico and in the United States, as is her advocacy for artistic collaborations between the two countries.
In 1995 she formed the highly regarded Minerva Tapia Dance Group, which has established important cross-border artistic collaborations and linkages. She is also co-founder of the U.S.-Mexico Binational Dance Showcase, The San Diego/Tijuana Dance on Film Festival and "La Medalla al Arte Dancístico Tijuana", an award to be bestowed upon notables from the dance world.
Currently Minerva is pursuing a Ph.D.in Critical Dance Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
