BIOGRAPHY
Vo Vera lives inside a macrocosm of creative experimentation and intentionality. He is a multidisciplinary movement artist with over two decades of practice as a self-trained street dancer and movement educator. Originally a Bboy, he loves to research, create work around and facilitate shared spaces that explore movement language synthesis, intentionality, and mindful community. Inspired by indigenous traditions, practices and knowledges, he is interested in building platforms that support arts, culture, indigeneity and other forms of social change. Independently and representing his street arts collective, The Sacred G’s, he has spoken at conferences, and taught workshops and performed at events and festivals across the Western hemisphere. Vo Vera and TSGs have received over 20 grants since 2020, thus producing cross-community arts and culture events, including performances, competitions, and inclusive gatherings. He continues to manage The Sacred G’s, and he works with Los Angeles based contemporary dance icon Jacob Jonas The Company as a dancer and grant writer. In his heart is a special place for inspiring the next generations to become dedicated artists and good humans. This led Vo Vera to spend a decade performing choreographing and co-creating curriculum for youth development organization The Be Kind People Project. He often works with Free Arts AZ, which uses the arts and mentorship to transcend juvenile trauma into resilience.
Vo Vera holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Arizona State University (ASU). Academically, he produced several works-in-progress, a bound document, and over 100 movement patterns and an 11-rule construct around his own street dance technique, Framing. As an educator, he teaches about Hip Hop dance and history, Breaking, street dance concepts, creative movement practices, yoga, and grant writing. He has served as Faculty Associate at ASU, and as Faculty Adjunct at Cerritos College and Maricopa Community Colleges. He has also guest taught for Paradise Valley Community College and Southern Utah University, and served as artist-in-residence at Grand Canyon University. Today he continues his academic research in further developing and integrating Framing into his work, with intention to share it with the world.