Pepe Álvarez is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist and scholar working across the disciplines of dance, theatre, and performance art. His doctoral research project examines Puerto Rico’s experimental dance history particularly looking at the practices, aesthetics and socio-political frameworks of dance improvisation in the context of Puerto Rico’s four-decades long economic crisis. Both his artistic practice and academic work follow a practice-based research methodology to establish links between art practice, critical theory and cultural history. He is currently working as one of the co-principal investigators in Northwestern University’s Puerto Rican Arts Development Initiative PRAI (2018-2020) sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.