Samaw Dance
Educator
Dancer
Choreographer
Adjunct at NYU (Hip Hop Dance and Culture), Adjunct at Queens College (Intro to Dance), MA in Dance Education: Dances of the African Diaspora (NYU), Curriculum writer for 92NY (Discover Dance), NDEO presenter: Waacking and Queerness and Decentering Eurocentrism in the BFA program
Resonance (immersive dance event), Director/Founder of DCL, Company Director of Rogue Makers, NYU Production Lab Fellow (‘24), Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Resident (‘23)
Director of DCL
This mission of David Cartahena Lee is to promote diversity, empower marginalized voices, and preserve dance histories through dance and dance education. As an educator David centers community, and advocates for queer dance to create inclusive spaces and as a choreographer David explores and validates the Asian American experience through street and club dances, and contemporary movement.