In conjunction with REPLICA, Judith Sanchez Ruiz leads a special movement workshop at the New Museum. Students with dance experience are encouraged to apply. Interested students should contact the teacher directly at jusaru@verizon.net for more information.

By learning to listen to your body, you will learn how to work body and mind in time and space. You will learn to make creative choices in the flow of the performance through the practice of dance improvisation.

"My art comes from a busy mind. It is a dance full of subtext and images, poems that deliver themselves through my body. I dance with my organs to understand who I am. While I love improvisation as a medium to express the content of a fresh and spontaneous art, I pursue a choreography that deals with the radical transformation of qualities and textures in relation with body architectures and geometrical shapes. My works juxtapose technically demanding choreography with open space of improvisation."
—Judith Sanchez Ruiz, interviewed for Dance Magazine by Emily Macel, 2009

Born in Havana, Cuba, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz joined Danza Abierta Company, the major exponent of Cuban avant-garde dance with which she toured extensively, teaching and performing in Latin America (1991-96). The choreographic works she created and performed since that time include On Walcott, which was based on poetry by Caribbean-born Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott and featured the musical direction of Henry Threadgill at Aaron Davis Hall in New York in 2001. Her work has been has presented in Cuba, Argentina, Spain, and the US. In New York her work has been shown at P.S.122, Movement Research at Judson Church, P.S.1 (MoMA), Joyce SoHo, The Kitchen, Queens Museum of Arts, New School University, Danspace Project St. Marks Church, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Sanchez Ruiz currently resides in New York City and has been a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company since 2006. She was recently awarded "Mujeres Destacadas 2008" by El diario, a Spanish-language newspaper in New York.