Myrna Renaud, Puertorican dancer/ choreographer/ educator/ writer/ designer/ vocalist has been experimenting with interdisciplinary site-specific public art since 1988; building up-scaled altars to Yoruba deities in theatres, ritual dancescapes in urban parks, storefront window installations and live percussion monuments under century old trees.
Her dance training includes Graham, Cunningham and Dunham techniques, as well as West African and Caribbean forms.
In Puerto Rico she is the artistic director/ teacher/ curator of Taller Nuestra Esencia Africana, La Incubadora and El Escuadrón del Ritmo, dance laboratories which have produced numerous experimental interdisciplinary events.
In Texas, U.S.A. she is well known for her spirited master classes, workshops and residencies which inspire participants to live fully through the dance and voice.
In October 1998, Myrna Renaud represented Puerto Rico at the world dance conference CONTINENTS IN MOVEMENT in Portugal, sponsored by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidad Humana. She presented a lecture demonstration entitled: PUNTOS EVOLUTIVOS DE LA DANZA CRIOLLA ANTILLANA DEL SIGLO DIECINUEVE, which spoke of the relationship that 19th century antillean lace and tobacco female workers had to their product and henceforth to the making of their culture. She also presented a lecture with visuals entitled: RESCATE URBANO: ROMPIENDO BARRERAS ARQUITECTONICAS / LA INSTALACION DE DANZA EN VITRINA COMO ALTERNATIVA AL TEATRO DE PROSCENIO, which documents her store front window installations and their legitimacy as barrier-free dance art.
Myrna Renaud will be in residency at Houston Community College / Central Performing Arts, Houston, TX and at Yang Chengfu Tai Chi Chuan Center, USA, San Antonio, TX in the early part of 2000.