Cynthia Salgado was born and raised in
California. She trained at the Juilliard School, receiving the Princess Grace Scholarship in 2004 and graduating with a BFA in dance in 2005. Since then she has been working as a freelance artist, performing and assisting for choreographers Aszure Barton and Mia Michaels. Her projects have included the Baryshnikov 2007 tour of “Hell’s Kitchen Dance”, “Earth; Healing The Rift” project in Kenya, Cirque du Soleil’s “Delirium”, a tour with Anna Vissi, a well-known artist in Greece, and a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Cynthia also teaches and
choreographs for youth countrywide. In 2002, she and her husband began an outreach program through Juilliard that has become a not-for-profit organization called Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP). ASTEP has brought her to Homestead, Florida, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and to the Shanti Bhavan School outside of Bangalore, India to teach the arts to children in need. Cynthia is honored to be a part of Aszure & Artists.