BuildaBridge Teaching Artist Maritza Ogarro performs next month with Mascher's Dance.

Originally from Los Angeles, California, Maritza M. Ogarro received a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Choreography and Performance from Temple University.  She also received a double bachelor's degree in Dance and African/African American studies from the University of California, Davis.  Maritza has danced for  Northern California choreographers: Melissa Wynn, Traci Bartlow, Eric Kupers, and Kim Epifano.  She has danced for choreographers here in Philadelphia:  Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Magira Ross, Marcelo Rueda and Nyama McCarthy-Brown.  She is currently an Adjunct Faculty instructor at Temple University, a Teaching Artist for BuildaBridge and one of the Project Coordinators for Rennie Harris Puremovement's Illadelph Legends of Hip Hop Festival.  Maritza has a deep passion for teaching, choreographing and performing.  She strongly believes that dance is one of the many mediums of art that can be used to culturally enrich and inform people.