Mar 11, 2020
For Mayra Collazo, dance and the arts are vital for any culture. A lifelong performer and now professor of dance in Puerto Rico, she wants to expand opportunities for people to experience the arts. Her goal is a museum of dance history in Puerto Rico to teach and spread the cultural breadth of dance.
As a professor at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, she shares her experiences dancing for multiple companies and performing worldwide. Collazo believes access to the arts may foster healing in a community that has suffered through so much.
She discusses how she’s fighting to earn the political will for greater arts investment and how her long career in dance has shaped this passion.