Yvonne Montoya
Choreographer. Writer. Speaker. Mother.

Mark your calendars for First Friday at Phoenix Art Museum! ✨ Join us this Friday, December 5th for an evening of art, light, and storytelling with Safos Dance Theatre. 🕯️Luminaria Workshop: 5:00pm 💃🏼Performance: 6:30pm — featuring excerpts from Stories from Home Come experience movement, memory, and Southwest stories brought to life. We can’t wait to share this work with you! 🌵🏜️

Greetings from Moab! 🌄 We loved getting to perform at the Historic Star Hall! We also had so much fun for the storytelling and luminaria workshop beforehand. Huge thanks to the Moab Valley Multicultural Center for welcoming us and giving us the opportunity to share this important work. We loved our time here in Moab so far! 💛

JMU ✨ Rehearsals were buzzing, the fall leaves were putting on a show 🍁, and we were feeling so inspired. We loved getting to share the stage last week at the DECIR Scholarship Showcase in the Forbes Center! Thank you JMU!

Deslenguadas, a dance inspired by a writing of the same name published in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, is a series of three dances – one duet and two solos. The dances in the series explore the impact the forced loss of the Spanish language had on three generations of one Nuevomexicano family from the 1940s to the present day. Through dance, movement, projected animation, and spoken word, the dances explore how each generation internalized racis

My Stories from Home: A Family Memory Book Do you ever find yourself longing to preserve your family stories? To document the memories, voices, and histories that connect one generation to the next? Inspired by Yvonne Montoya’s Stories from Home, this personal journal is your gateway to uncovering your roots and celebrating your family’s unique narrative. Packed with thoughtful prompts, this journal guides you through documenting your stories. Each page invites you to reflect

Stories from Home: The Monologue Collection The heart and soul of the contemporary dance piece of Stories from Home, this book is a collection of the eight written stories that accompany the dances performed in the evening length dance performance. This book features the full collection of monologues in their entirety from the Stories from Home dance theatre performance. On their own, this text provides the historical and contextual framework for each dance featured in the pr

This past weekend at the Phoenix Art Museum’s Second Saturday, Safos shared moments from Stories from Home through dance, storytelling, and art making. From stage to sketch, kids and families joined us in creating and sharing what “home” means to them. ✨ A heartfelt thank you to everyone who danced, drew, and dreamed with us. It was truly a day well spent. 💛

I was invited to speak to Rincon University High School dance students from the Primavera class. It was so nice to connect with Tucson’s...

We’re thrilled to be in Los Alamos this week sharing Stories from Home! This community is not only part of the history behind the work,...

✨ Safos Dance Theatre is headed to Colorado College this fall! ✨ We’ll be in residency with the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies +...