Primera Generación Dance Collective (PGDC) is a collaborative group based in L.A/Riverside, California and formed by Alfonso Cervera, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, and Patricia “Patty” Huerta. PGDC focuses on the visibilization of Latine corporeality, joy, and loss through movement-based exploration, process, performance, convenings, and curations. The collective grounds their works in desmadre making and rasquache (resourcefully tacky) play, generating work that speaks to their Latine, working-class experiences. As artists, they experiment with Latin American text, satire, song, and movement, and fuse together their eclectic aesthetics to expose el “desmadre” (messiness) that is embedded in being first-generation, Mexican American bodies. Their work aims to reclaim "low-brow," Latine art and iconography to spark futurity. PGDC has performed at REDCAT, HomeLA, FLACC Festival, Mission Dance Theater, Highways Performance Space, El Teatro Campesino, Human Resources LA, BlakTinx Dance Festival in Arizona and L.A, and NAVEL. They are the recipients of the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Grant that was used to premiere “NOStalgia POP,” an immersive work highlighting how Latine bodies have shaped popular culture in the US and beyond. In 2025, they were named to Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” As curators, PGDC members work collaboratively to develop networks and resources for other first-generation artists. This mission has been a foundational force for their annual (de) Color-Es festival, an evening of radical performance centering BIPOC artists in Los Angeles. They have also built residencies for high school dance students in Southern California, raised funds for local LGBTQ+ resource centers in LA, and developed community performances and arts events necessary to maintain the arts alive in the communities that they stem from. PGDC also runs an arts organization, Show Box L.A, that works to center and manifest trans-communal collaborations, creations, and networks between QTBIPOC artmakers in the LA region and beyond. For more information follow PGDC at @primerageneraciondance + @showboxla