Gaspar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Theatre and Drama department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a professional Puerto Rican actress and dancer, as well as a certified theatre teacher. Gaspar has participated as an actress in several Puerto Rican theatre and film companies, including Teatro del Sestena, Cimarrón and Isla Flims Co. Her acting experiences in Madison include the UW-Theater productions The Odyssey, The Water Station, Orestes, The Bacchae and Les Blancs. She has danced professionally with the Puerto Rican National Folkloric Company Gíbaro de Puerto Rico (www.gibarodepr.com) since 1992. As a soloist of Bomba dance with Gíbaro, she has performed at international dance festivals in Spain, France, Canada, Puerto Rico and New York at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. Gaspar’s dance and choreography experiences in Madison include Sisté-Obá-Mujer, Antigone and the multimedia performance Night Bombing. Gaspar has also taught Puerto Rican dance as Associate Lecturer in the UW-Madison dance program, as well as Drama in Education at the Bayview International Center for Education and the Arts as part of an outreach program of the UW-Madison theatre department. Moreover, she has been an active theatre and dance workshop leader with different groups in the Madison community, including Arts Night Out, UW-Dance Millennium Summer Dance Camp, PEOPLE’s program (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence), Youth Solutions, UW-Madison Housing Division and more.
A peace activist (particularly for the cause of Vieques, Puerto Rico), Gaspar has danced Bomba—the traditional Puerto Rican dance form—with Call for Peace Drum and Dance Company since 2000.