Yebel Gallegos is a first-generation Mexican-American dance artist from the borderlands of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He played an essential role in founding Cressida Danza, a contemporary dance company in Mérida, Yucatán. From 2008 to 2012, Yebel worked with Cressida Danza as a dancer, teacher, and rehearsal director. He also contributed to creating and implementing the Festival Yucatán Escénica, an international contemporary dance festival.

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In 2013, Yebel joined the Salt Lake City-based Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, where he performed works by various choreographers, including Daniel Charon, Ann Carlson, Doug Varone, Kate Weare, Jonah Bokaer, and Joanna Kotze. While in Utah, Yebel was involved in many collaborative projects, co-choreographing with local artists and teaching in the community. 

In 2019, he concluded a six-year tenure with Ririe-Woodbury to pursue a master’s in fine arts from the University of Washington (UW). At the UW, Yebel began research intersecting dance, gender, and Latin American studies, which has inspired his choreographic, scholarly, and pedagogical work for the last four years. In his career, he has toured the United States and internationally to countries such as Mexico, Austria, Chile, France, Mongolia, and South Korea. Yebel holds an Assistant Professorship at Bard College.