Frances Tirado
Writer, Creative Director
United States
Bilingual writer and director that approaches all work with curiosity and attention to detail. Dances often.
United States
Bilingual writer and director that approaches all work with curiosity and attention to detail. Dances often.
PACT's mission is to protect every child's right to grow up free from child sexual exploitation and trafficking. We do this through education, legislative advocacy and partnerships. Learn more at WeArePACT.org
This is "CLI Creative Portraits" by Frances Tirado on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Four poems created for a video project with “portraits” of each student at the CLI Conservatory. My task was to write poems based on the bulk selected videos, and then fine tune the poetry and timing to the final selected videos of each student.
I choreographed this piece in response to the idea of the rhythm of speech and human language, and then asked my musical friend to compose a brief musical score that responded to that same idea. This video is the combination of those two items, which were created in isolation of each other.
My fall solo for the CLI Conservatory, written, directed, choreographed, danced by me. "Asynchronous Spring" thank you to my big fat brain for withstanding the dissonance we have new songs to learn I wanted to submit to something but I was gripped by myself.
No child and no childhood is "perfect." We all have vulnerabilities. But for some youth, those vulnerabilities are like cracks in their foundations, leaving them more susceptible to harm. To illustrate how these vulnerabilities show up, PACT teamed up with Red Sand Project during National Human
After years of advocacy and tireless work by survivors, advocates, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the U.S. Senate has unanimously passed the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, just weeks after the bill cleared the House of Representatives on a voice vote. The bill (H.R. 4323) now awai
When you think about where you've learned the most reliable information about safety, what comes to mind?
Dancing to the audio of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway read aloud. -Choreographer, Dancer, Co-Editor. Filmed 2019
In the winter, we will go to the library and the stacks will feel like trees in a botanical garden.Between the margins of common sense and no sense at all, we will find sections labelled "periodicals," "perspective," and "perpendicular people" and like children on grassy knoll drunk with the feeling of being far-from (the world...
As a part of the Collective Composition Lab in the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2019, I engaged in deep creative inquiry, exaltation, and collaboration with dancers, choreographers, and composers.
When you think about where you've learned the most reliable information about safety, what comes to mind?
We teamed up with PACT, a U.S.-based organization focused on ending the commercial sexual exploitation of children, to bust some common myths about child trafficking.
April 13, 2022 / 13 minutes of reading One of the most important qualities of any dance performance is the almost unexplainable quality of "stage presence." You know when it's there, and you miss it when it isn't. But what is it? Why is it important?
December 5, 2021 / 7 minutes of reading Hello! My name is Frances Tirado, and I am a student in the CLI Conservatory. A little about me: I'm big into musical theatre, ballet and salsa dancing, and studied writing and theatre at the University of Pittsburgh.
January 20, 2022 / 8 minutes of reading Once someone has created the masterpiece that is their personal choreography, how is a student supposed to 'pick it up' and put it on their bodies? And, once you know how to do that, how can you get better at it?
Do you remember how to teach? Good, the students are waiting.Other people are thinking like you. They've borrowed their way of speaking from someone else, too. These wordsare their words. Apostrophe, possessive of myself,I bargain and feel free. I met a man who made me think I alone was one;became headless dame and lost the...
Book for the original musical “A Good Day,” created for internal purposes (crew, directing team, archival)
April 28, 2022 / 5 minutes of reading Dana Wilson, Megan Lawson, and Jillian Meyers are the three artists that make up the iconic Seaweed Sisters! They're committed to honest, vibrant storytelling and sharing their treasure trove of accumulated experience and wisdom with dancers everywhere.
Since 2021, we've hosted a summer youth internship program that brings together passionate high school and college-bound students.
until I'm bones garnished with diamond apologies carbon cut carcass andcrafty monopolies I ate all your praiseand out popped a girl talon scratched facea man of his word here have my elbow, my kneeall my curves fingernails fate lines morning screams sound like birdsone drop of medicine i'm recommended dosethey'll sweetly drown you if you...
I am made of poetry and angerI throw away bone and building, tear down torn-down feelingsI have no spontaneous overflow of emotion, I misremember myselfam I really free to write about absolutely anything?how can you be so sure? hush mary magdaleneI still want to fall asleep when pen---hits page and when I admit it, my...
This is "Frances Tirado Contemporary Semi-Dramatic Monologue" by Frances Tirado on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
January 18, 2022 / 6 minutes of reading Feedback is the angry red pen on what you thought was a perfect essay and the standing ovation to what you thought was a horrible opening night. Feedback can also be our thoughts said out loud by someone else, exactly the way we needed to hear them.
You're not supposed to use your superpowersall the time. People get mad and you gettired. It's a video game. Wait until youRecharge. Or don't.You don't have to use a lot of your superpower on a little task. Or any task.You don't have to use your superpowerYou don't have to give just because you haveI've changed...
On January 31, 2024, CEOs from big tech companies META, X, Snap, Tiktok, and Discord will testify to Congress about child sexual exploitation in their...
February 4, 2022 / 8 minutes of reading Picking music can be a really exciting part of a competition solo, but it can be unnecessarily stressful too! Even if you don't consider yourself a music buff, you can still find the perfect song that both complements and challenges your performance and dancing style.
French law student Elise Hirsch wanted to intern for PACT because of our "comprehensive approach to combating human trafficking, which includes prevention, education, training, and advocacy." She is particularly interested in PACT's efforts in legislative action, and how she can apply her knowledge
The CLI Conservatory presents "Press Play, Season 2," a multimedia in-person performance featuring choreography by some of today's top choreographers. With a display of versatility, technique, and training, this show celebrates these dancers' individuality and the tribes they have created during the second year of the CLI Conservatory.
A cheeky campaign for social distancing. Horses are wild on Vieques, and are the subject of much joy, controversy, and conversation. This campaign was created when spirits were starting to dampen and the idea of continued social isolation became daunting.
to be fair, I haven't been outside yet and my thewindows weren't open when I woke up, this was an hour after I "wanted" to wake, but if it has to get done firstit will get done and you'll make sure...
The REPORT Act was signed into law yesterday! Congratulations to the hard work of the PACT policy team (including Alexander Delgado and Sheena D.), and of the...
One of several newsletters I created for my sister’s upcoming nuptials
November 15, 2021 / 8 minutes of reading Oh, auditions! Love them or hate them, they are a big part of being a dancer. Whether it's auditioning for a Broadway show, or auditioning for a spot at your dream dance conservatory, the whole process can be both exciting and a little nerve-racking.
February 4, 2022 / 7 minutes of reading February is Black History Month, which means we are diving into Black dance excellence all month long! The dance industry is more than just iconic dancers and performances and fun classes. Dance organizations are vital to many diverse communities and populations that face obstacles when it comes to arts education and dance training.
A version of our master document/style guide for VL's stance on tourism. This specific draft was originally geared towards the "Snowbird" audience; e.g. people that are repeat visitors to Vieques and are most likely to follow strict measures to keep the island safe. These visitors also tend to stay for months at a time, so the two week quarantine upon arrival was a feasible option for them. All of the copy in this document was used in various emails, posts, group messages, and posters.
March 10, 2022 / 7 minutes of reading You might still be bundling up for the winter or awaiting your spring break, but summer will be here before you know it. For a dancer, summer means time to rest, hang out, and... dive even further into your training at a summer intensive.
May 13, 2022 / 5 minutes of reading The pandemic disrupted many dance-related events, shows, and programming. Broadway went completely dark for the longest time in history, ballet was practiced in tiny living rooms, many awards shows were postponed or canceled, and bustling film sets were few and far between, especially at the beginning of the pandemic.
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee faces CEOs from Meta, X, Snap, TikTok and Discord in a full committee hearing on online child exploitation. Since last...
February 25, 2022 / 6 minutes of reading Every dance style has a history, a tradition, and a long list of dancers and choreographers that have influenced and molded the way we see that style today. Jazz, Tap, and Hip-Hop dance have some of the most layered histories when it comes to the cross-cultural codification of the technique.
An explanation of our contact tracing program! This design theme was repeated in a few other iterations and printed for use by restaurants who were keeping a log book for contact tracing purposes.
A list of accomplishments for VL to reference in donor emails, translated and separated by category
Vieques, Puerto Rico, Fourth of July Weekend. Using my art form to demonstrate how far 6 feet apart really is in a series about social distancing. I danced in front of the ferry, on the malecon, and at Sun Bay.
A hurricane preparedness list prepared from an internal list from ViequesLove and corroborated with other community groups.
The second dose of the vaccines was administered to over 3,200 Vieques residents February 8-11 at the Maria Simmons school. This historic event was...
A lot of my work from VL was not archived— this is an excerpt of some of my writing, with translation in Spanish