José Navarrete is a native of Mexico City. He studied theater at the National Actors Associationıs Institute Soler and dance at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. He has a B.A. in Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley. He studies modern dance with Sara Shelton Mann, and Argentine Tango with Nora Dinzelbacher among others. Currently Mr. Navarrete performs with Contraband as well as his own work. He received two nominations for the Isadora Duncan awards both in choreography and performance. Mr. Navarrete is also a community health educator at Clinica Esperanza, an HIV clinic in the Mission Neighborhood Health Center (MNHC) in San Francisco. He co-facilitates Hermanos de Luna y Sol, a mono-lingual Latino Gay menıs support group at MNHC.
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