Melissa Almaguer
About
Melissa Almaguer is a multidisciplinary tap artist, improviser, and educator born and raised in Mexico and now based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the bandleader of several improvisation collectives, including praesēns and Angel of Air/ Angel of Water. In addition to her bandleader and soloist projects, Almaguer has collaborated with Moor Mother, Irreversible Entanglements, William Parker, Luke Stewart, Elio Villafranca, and JALCO, among others.
Almaguer has performed at Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, National Sawdust, The Jazz Gallery, Kaufman Music Center, and Jamaica Center of the Arts. She is an educator on faculty at Steps On Broadway and Harlem School of the Arts and continues to hold workshops worldwide.
Photo by Ariella Villefranche
Melissa Almaguer, a Latina person with long curly hair, is looking at the camera with an outdoor tree background.