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In the press

Two decades of work across stage, screen and scholarship — from Lincoln Center to the United Nations.

SELECTED FEATURES
Radio
May 2025
Los Herederos · LH Radio

LH Radio “Creators” — a conversation on rediscovering roots and building diasporic connections through movement.

Podcast
2025
Peruvians in the USA

Guest conversation on the diaspora, identity and Dance Your Ancestors.

Collaboration
2024
Kántuas

Jewelry-line collaboration and dance photoshoot with Kántuas.

Feature
2023
Dancing Earth Summer Institute

Featured artist at the Dancing Earth Summer Institute, centering Indigenous and ancestral contemporary dance.

Feature film
Jun 2021
In the Heights

Appears in the Lin-Manuel Miranda film adaptation, directed by Jon M. Chu.

Pepatián
2021
Reflecting Archives

Featured among South Bronx / Latine dance artists in conversation on legacy and archive.

UN Symphony Orchestra
Feb 2019
El Cóndor Pasa: Andean Hope

Choreographer for the UNSO production — libretto by Luis Valdéz Pallete, premiered in NYC.

The Bronx Free Press
Jan 2014
When Roots Dance

“For Cynthia Paniagua, dancing is more than just an occupation or passion — it’s an expression of who she is.”

El Comercio
2006–2009
Paukartampu

Choreographer of the Lima production fusing circus, theater and dance.

Documentary
2007
Soy Andina

Featured dancer and protagonist of the acclaimed documentary — workshops and Q&A screenings followed.

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