1954 Boricua, Bronx, NYC.

Dancer, choreographer, teacher, designer, producer, and mentor, she has worked for 50 years in postmodern, experimental, and Afri-Caribbean dance; site-specific creation, performance/installation, post-dramatic theater, screendance, expressive therapies, creative writing, vocal-sound composition, and corporeal community outreach. Renaud researches and produces her work in Puerto Rico, Catalonia, Portugal, and the United States of North America. Her project-based company, En Situ Danza, endorses and supports international collaboration. 

Established as one of the pillars of the experimental dance movement in Puerto Rico: “Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico" University of Michigan Press.

Her awards for site-specific performance installations in Puerto Rico include:

2008: Cuestión de 7- Gira de Artevivo Santurcina / PR Foundation for Architecture

2024: Trilogía site-specific de la performance/instalación Los frutos del amor: Códices Contemporáneos de la esencia Africana en la danza Caribeña / Mellon Foundation