Rudi; writer, dancer, and actor, has performed along the side of artists such as The Roots, Mos Def, and De La Soul. Besides his musical pursuits, he has been dancing for over 17 years and is an acclaimed B-Boy, his crew Flipside Kings has toured in and out the country competing in, judging, and winning various events. In 2003, he earned himself a place in Teo Castellanos’ D-Projects, a collective of culturally trained artist creating provocative contemporary performance. Rudi went on for the next year and a half to build and create D-Project’s first piece, Scratch & Burn, with which he toured with internationally for five years, while receiving most of his theater training during this period as well. Since then, he has gone on to train/work with DV8 Physical Theater, Cirque De Soleil, and become a member of Octavio Campos’ Campostion Hybrid Theater Works, Rosie Herrera’s Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre — and an interactive performance troupe Circ-X. Rudi is also a recipient of the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR) funded by the Ford Foundation in conjunction with the Future Aesthetics Cohort, and has now spent the last 8 years fueling his passion for theater/performance art and new creative expressions, while working to bring it to a broader audience.

He is currently teaching and touring in and out the country with his two one-man shows, Insanity Isn’t and Fair Welling, both shows were commissioned by Miami Light Project and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts for the Here & Now.