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Ms. Luna, a native of Chiapas, Mexico, graduated from the National Contemporary Dance Center in Querétaro. She has taken classes and workshops with Jeremy Nelson, Karina Suárez, Alicia Sánchez, and Robert Haydn, among others. She has been the co-director of Astrolabio Theater Research: Random, E=mc2, [RE]Post since 2013. She has worked on collaborative projects and management since 2011. Ambar is the organizer of Rally: Spontaneous dance, intervention in public spaces, which has been taking place since 2011 en various cities in Mexico. She is interested in the exhibition of the processes and tools for theatrical creation and research. She is also interested in the modes of training from the audience to the artist. Ms. Luna is a grant recipient for Pecda 2008, Apoyarte 2012, IQCA 2015, Pecda 2012 from Consejo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Chiapas (CONECULTA), and PADID

We are a group of collaborative artists investigating and creating works about physical distance and space, shared body memory, and collective unconsciousness. We all met during our undergraduate years at Beloit College in Beloit, WI where we first began collaborating as students of dance and performance. We have since been exploring ways to continue our collaborations using our circumstantial distance apart as a driving force in the creative process interweaving our disparate post-collegiate world experiences into the fabric of our performance.

She is a independent movement artista. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary collaborations exploring the relationship between words and body. Her activities contemplate choreographic creation, teaching, and theorical investigation. She has an MFA in dance with the Maryland University, and Laban analyst Certificate by Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and a BA in Hispanic letters. Some of her works are"My Tempest" "¿Qué hice esta mañana?" y "Esbozos para un temporada en el Infierno"; She has taught in UDLAP. Maryland University, BUAP, Academia de la Danza Mexicana and Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. She has recieved scholaships by: Fulbright-García Robles (2011-2013), Fellowship student from the Universify of Maryland (2012-2913). Partnership for the Excelence in The Performing Arts (CSPAC, 2012-2013), INBA "Educación Artística 2009" y "Fomento al Desarrollo de la Educación Artística 2001.

ANDREA VAZQUEZ grew up in Mexico City. She holds a B.F.A in choreography from Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea in Mexico City and an M.F.A. in dance from SUNY Brockport. She was a scholar under FONCA, the government council for the culture and arts in Mexico. She has danced in several professional companies in Mexico and the United States, such as Bill Evans Dance Company, Geomantics Dance Theatre, Dramadanza and Jaguar de Agua (now Compañía Artes Transformáticas). Her research interests include the acquisition of consciousness within somatic research contexts, the possibilities between dance and other disciplines, engaged pedagogy, intuitive choice making- processes through improvisation, the politics of choreography, traditional folk dances and the relationship between creative practice and spirituality. She has international teaching experience and is currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

I grew up in a small town in Montana. When I made the decision to continue my education, I moved to the Midwest, where I am currently a student at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. Though I've been dancing since I was very young, I never imagined I would be able to continue my dance journey after leaving home. I had the idea that the competitive and stressful larger dance world might ruin the blissful relationship I had with the art form. I was happily surprised when I entered college in Beloit, to find that the dance community fostered diversity and inclusivity. Now, I am studying dance as well as literature, and have been able to perform as a dancer as well as create choreographic works in my time here. Once I graduate this spring, I hope to continue creating works that focus on the importance of communication and expression. I also hope to work in the world of dance therapy, helping individuals to find their own unique voice through movement.

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Cameron McKinney, the Artistic Director of Kizuna 絆 Dance, currently performs with Dante Brown | Warehouse Dance, Renegade Performance Group, Christal Brown / INSPIRIT, and Seymour::dance collective. His choreographic work aims to portray aspects of the Japanese culture on stage through a hip-hop and contemporary dance lens. His work has been presented by Let's Dance International Frontiers (UK), The Moving Beauty Series, Bailout Theater, Triskelion Arts, and Dixon Place, among others. He has been commissioned by the Steffi Nossen School of Dance, The Moving Beauty Series, and SpectorDance Studio. He created Loft Technique, a unique blend of house dance, street dance styles, and contemporary floorwork. He has taught in four states in the US, and internationally in Japan and the UK. He was on faculty at the 2015 Southern Vermont Dance Festival, and was recently chosen as a promising emerging choreographer for Doug Varone's DEVICES Choreographic Intensive.

Originally from France, Caroline moved to NYC in December 2012 to follow her passion for dance. Her parents who wanted to channel her energy and imagination put her in a ballet class when she was 5 years old. She has danced since then wherever her career in advertising has taken her – Paris, Hong Kong, Madrid -. She has performed with Complutum Contemporary Dance Company and DaDaDanza Project in Spain, collaborated with Projects in Movement and Company Contexte in Paris, and taken part in diverse dance projects in NYC with Eryc Taylor Dance Company, Mare Nostrum Elements Dance Theatre Company, BalaSole Dance Company and independent choreographers as a freelance dancer and choreographer. Two years in a row, she was selected for the Emerging Choreographer Series by Mare Nostrum Elements for a residency program. Her work has been shown at Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theatre, LPAC, Green Space Bloom Festival, The Current Sessions Volume V Issue II and the Dance Gallery Festival in both NYC and Houston. She is a certified Gyrokinesis ® teacher and a Gyrotonic ® teacher.

We are a group of women, committed to creating, collaborating and sharing our art with each other's communities through performance, film and community service. We are Dancers, Teachers, Choreographers, Musicians, Visual Artists and Filmmakers, coming together from México and the United States. Our mission is to weave communities across borders through the art of movement.

Psychologist and dancer, originally from Mexico City. In Ciudad Juárez I began to study contemporary dance. During college I studied different psyco-corporeal therapies and physical therapy activities, and different contemporary dance techniques, social dance, and dances of Eastern origin. In 2009 I moved to France where I was certified as a yoga instructor and began my studies in dance therapy. I continued with dance, giving workshops and learning flamenco between Marsella and Sevilla. During this time I worked in different dance companies and began developing my performative proposal, which I had the opportunity to present at different festivals. In 2014 I returned to Mexico City and continued studying and teaching dance. I have participated in conference, as a teacher in seminars, counsels and courses dedicated to dance and the study of the body. For 2 consecutive years I organized the Festival de la Danza en la Universidad de la Ciudad de México and I participated in the last two conferences in the U.S. by the Society of Health and Physical Educators in Las Vegas, Nevada, Salt Lake City and Utah. Currently, I give classes and coordinate group therapy sessions. I continue to develop my proposal that fuses different dance styles and other disciplines to create a vocabulary based in holistic movement, rhythms and harmonics to help our psyco-somatic processes, conflict resolution, looking in my classes, performance and projects to create spaces and situations that catalyze people to use dance as medium for creative conscious expression.

Dancer, teacher, and movement creator. My interest focuses in improvisation, somatic and movement practices, which intertwine to nurture and widen our creative, bodily and dancistic abilities. Mi work, is based in building a stronger sense of community and to make scenic arts as a place to become creative, free, and integrated. She has a BA in Dance from UDLAP and is an active member of Chicken Bank Collective.

Born in Costa Rica in 1990, where she studied dance and circus arts, like Jimmy Ortiz, Fred Deb, David Zambrano, David Capps, Marielle Morales, Ana Prada, Anton Lachky amongst others. She has dedicated the past 10 years to aerial dance, within circus arts, and workin as an event producer for different companies in Costa Rica. She now lives in Cozumel and has her scenic arts proyect called “Creando Movimiento Cozumel” to be able to research the body, our capacities, and being able to surprise ourselves with our movement. Creando Movimiento is a link between national and international artists with the island. She has been travelling around Mexico teaching workshops to dancers, acrobats, and anyone who has an interest to approach dance.

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Daniel has a creative practice driven by awe and wonder for humanity and an equally poignant curiosity and respect for the more-than-human world. His work prioritizes content over genre, weaving text, dance, video, music and new media. He considers all work to be site and context-specific and is interested in mobilizing audience agency through interaction and unconventional use of space. His work has been presented at the Imagining Bodies Symposium in Tallin, Estonia, the San Francisco International Arts Festial, SoWat Now Contemporary Performance Festival, and Looking Left Festival in California, and at the SEEDS Festival and E|MERGE Collaborative Interdisciplinary Residency at Earthdance Center, MA (which he also produced and curated for its first three years). In June he received his MFA from UC Davis. He has performed in theaters, on submarines, desert rocks, construction scaffolding, and art galleries. He's made pieces about dementia, gender, war, heritage, identity. He cares about image, awe, and beauty. He has been blessed with opportunities to perform with Guillermo Gomez Peña, Nita Little, Nancy Stark Smith, Live Art Installations, Felix Ruckert, Kira Kirsch, Scott Wells, and many other inspiring body/minds. His interest in the human experience has recently brought him to work with the real stories of under-represented peoples offering up their unique experiences as a site for connection. He has directed this work with EchoTheaterSuitcase project in collaborative ensembles of veterans and non-veterans and by assisting in the choreography of The Artistic Ensemble's production of Fault Line created and performed by inmates at San Quentin Prison. Daniel has taught Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, and Composition internationally in Estonia, Finland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Denmark and Mexico. He has applied and adapted learning from these physical inquiry practices in activity as diverse as body work and acrobatic stilts. Whether teaching physical skills or compositional practices, his intention is to foster tools for informed choice and increased possibility.

Daniel was born in Puebla, México. His composition works had been premiered in USA, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala and Mexico. Awarded with the Acreditación de Interés Institucional por la Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, Argentina (2014) and with two artistic residencies at Harvard University (Boston 2011) and at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía en Madrid España (2010-2013). He has been a speaker at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Saint Etienne en Francia, Cuarto Coloquio de la Facultad en Sonido en la Universidad de Chile, Universidad Nacional de la Rioja, Escuela de Música de Salta, Escuela de Música de Cafayate Argentina, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Universidad de las Américas Puebla.

Nowadays he teaches Musical Theory and Composition at Complejo Cultural Universitario BUAP, teacher and coordinator of the Music department of the Centro Mexicano Universitario de Ciencias y Humanidades. Artistic director and executive producer of N0D Ensamble/ Experimental world Music Project. Since 2005 he works as a freelance composer, making music for theater, dance, ensembles and symphony orchestras, inside and outside the country.

Mr. Silva completed all coursework necessary for his Master’s Degree in Advanced Theater Studies at the University of Rioja, Spain. He has served as the director of Herejes interdisciplinary dance (2004-present). He is the co-director and founder of the pantomime dance group, Rodará (1998-present) and is the co-director of their festival. He is the director of Gestarte, a cultural entity. David Silva is a choreographer, playwright and the director of the Physical Theater. He is a faculty member in theater at Universidad del Valle de Puebla (February 2015-present) and is also a Krav Maga personal defense instructor in Puebla (2013-present). For an extensive listing of his experience, please refer to the Spanish section of this site.

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Efrén Cruz Cortés is an engineer by profession. His research is on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, where he investigates the probabilistic nature of reality in order to develop algorithms that aid machines to learn and perform tasks for the betterment of the human condition. His early dance training was in Mexican folk dance, but towards the end of college shifted to modern dance and improvisation. He has participated in other various collaborative dance and theater projects, more recently in various dance performances at the University of Michigan. Currently, he is working on a project on the philosophical aspects of Machine Learning and their relationship to art, society, and politics.

BA in theater, diploma in Dance, Masters in Psychonalisis and cultura, Doctorate in Eco-education.

A student in the department of dance at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mr. García has participated in the ballet folklórico de la normal veracruzana and has received critical acclaim for his performances. He has trained with several nationally and internationally known teachers, such as Mijail Rojas (Cuba), Luis Vallejo (4x4). He also trained with Raúl Martínez and Marco Fonseca from the group Los Innatos (Costa Rica), Giovanni Rosas, Sebastián García (Argentina), Alfonso López, and Carlos Zamora, and Vivian Cruz, among others. Mr. García has also competed in the national COP contests in Puerto Vallarta and in Mexico City, placing first and third in Hip-Hop. He also competed in a state competition for Hip-Hop in the city of Cordóba (Veracruz State). Under the supervision of the choreographer, Gregorio Trejo, he worked on a piece entitled The Book of Popol Vuh based on the mytho-historical narratives. With choreographer and teacher, Esther Ianda he worked on De Verde; with the choreographer Mijaíl Rojas he worked on Impostura. With Leticia Velazco he worked on the choreograph of “signs.” With Jorge Francisco Córdoba he worked on the piece “S no S” which was shown in the 34th Guillermo Arriaga National Dance Award. He is currently working with the group Híbrido which is based in Xalapa Veracruz, which has been a participant in the theater arts alternative Biannual Innexo.

Kiika Brash. Dancer, Multidisciplinary artist, manager and teacher. She has a BA in Dance from UDLAP. Since 2005 she has participated as a dancer and a choreographer in various platforms and festivals. She has a diploma in dance and site-specific by the Centro de formación y Producción Coreográfica in Morelos. She founded DANZARTHEH Dance Studio, in Tehuacán Puebla, and acts as Administrative and Artistic Director. She is dedicated to research and creation of independent productions and collaborations with different types of artists. Co-Founder of HELICón/Apropiación Artística Tehuacán, an artist movement interested to promote art and culture in the community.

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Franzelle is a performer, pedagogue, choreographer, net- and social worker. Franzelle consists of Franziska Kusebauch and Pelle Tillö, working both on stage and in pedagogical settings since 2014. Franzelle is trained as a dance pedagogue with a strong interest in the intersection of physical performing arts and community development, in order to create new surprising joyful meeting points between people. On stage Franzelle has worked as a dancer in pieces directed by the South-Korean choreographer Seung-a Junga and Wagner Moreira. Since 2014 franzelle develops and drives artistic projects for children and youths targeting questions of interaction, ownership, creative reinvention and participation from a physical approach. Franzi Franzi has a 4 years Dance pedagogue Bachelor from Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden along with a Staatsexamen in German and French including pedagogy, psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She received her dance training in Munich, Paris and Dresden. In 2012 she received a scholarship for the International Choreographers Residency Program at the American Dance Festival. Currently she is leading artistic projects together with Franzelle (www.franzelle.eu) and The Ar(t)chitects (www.artcitects.org) in Sweden and Germany. In this context she is interested in the design of performative formats and their impact in social infrastructures both from an artistic and a scientific research perspective. Beside that she is working as a production assistant for Wagner Moreira's new work 'Talk to Me'. She also has a broad experience as a performer. Recently she was performing at the International Street Theatre Festival ViaThea 2015 in Görlitz. Pelle Physical Artist and Teacher interested in the range of possibilities movement offers, both in the solo body and as a chance of interaction. Studied circus and sports from an early age, started with dance during his teens. Educated at the University of Dance and Circus (DOCH) as a dance pedagogue, examined 2012, since then worked as a contemporary dancer, circus artist and pedagogue.

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Ana Gabriela Carrera Santillana, known as Gabriela Carrera, 36 years old, was born March 17th 1979 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. She began her profesional studies in dance at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLAP), when two years later she was accepted into the Dance Program at Theaterschool Ámsterdam (AHK) in the Netherlands, graduating with a Bachellor's. Since 2009, she has been part of the dance ensemble of CODACO in Puebla where she has worked with several national and international choreographers including Bill Evans, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Rip Parker, Alejandro Schwartz, Henry Torres, Ángel Arámbula, Wade Madsen, Isabel Beteta, Federica Folco, Marco Antonio Silva, Mauricio Nava. Furthermore, she has distinguished herself within the company for creating content for alternative spaces. She won 2nd place in the National Choreography Contest of the Festival Angelopolitano (FAD) in 2012 with the piece ¨Un Instante del Instante¨ (An Instant of the Instant), which later placed her as finalist in the 4x4 TJ Night in Tijuana, 2013; she placed as finalist in the year 2012 in the INBA-UAM-UNAM Prize with the piece "2-1 en contra" ("2 to 1 Against"); and won 1st place for the FAD in 2013 with ¨Re-Inspiratió¨. Currently, she is a grant beneficiary for the PECDAP 2014-2015 and coordinates the Choreographic Workshop as part of the CODACO CCU BUAP¨. She is a winner for Best Female Interprete in the X6 Coreography Competition ¨Héctor Chávez; as well as an Honorable Mention for ¨Best Music¨ an award for 2nd place in Choreography with ¨Quietud desesperante de un abrazo vacío¨ (Despairing Stillness of an Empty Embrace). She participates this year in festivals such as DANZA UDLAP 2016 and in the CND, in Torreón, as part of the program Solos & Duets. She has obtained a Diploma in Arts Management in Xalapa and is currently studying her Master's in Competence Education.

Ms. Montero is a chemical engineer, dancer, teacher and choreographer. She is a native of the city of Puebla, and holds a certificate in Cultural Affairs Management from CONACULTA (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). She currently dances with Compañía de Danza Contemporánea del Complejo Cultural Univeritario (CODACO-CCU-BUAP), and is on faculty in the dance program at the School of the Arts of Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and the Ministry of Public Education (Secretería de Educación Pública, SEP). She is also the director of Tripulantes (Crew Members), a creative organization. She is a graduate of BUAP who also studied at Universidad de las Américas at Puebla (UDLAP) and the Center for Choreographic Research (CICO-INBA, Centro de Investigación Coreográfica, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2007) with residencies in Paris, France: Centre National de la Danse, , Menangerie de Verre, École Peter Goss y Micadanses. She was a participant in the International Dance Meeting in Havana, Cuba, 2003, the World Congress of Greece and Cyprus, 2005, and the International Dance Festival in Portugal, 2005. She was also the director of “When Time Plays My Dreams,” a choreographic compilation put together by many dance artists (2008). She has previously danced with: Rodanza, Sunny Savoy Company, UDLADANZA, projects with CICO and independent ones too. She was a guest dancer for the winning project in artistic innovation for IMACP (2014). She has performed the works of

Sunny Savoy, Rip Parker, Bill Evans, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Janet Schroeder, Federica Folco, Wade Madsen, Mauricio Nava, Isabel Beteta, Ana González, Esther Lopezllera, Alejandro Schwartz, and Angel Arámbula, among others. She has created works for Tripulantes, CODACO, a choreographic workshop for CODACO, The School of the Arts BUAP, and SEP. She has been an examiner for professional exams at BUAP. She has attended and participated in: Performática 2007, FAD CCU-BUAP, FIC Guanajuato (2013), Downtown Festival in Cuahuila,(2005), Festival del Desierto de San Luis Potosí (2012), Festival Internacional de Danza de la Comarca Lagunera(2012), Festival Internacional de Danza "Lila López" S.L.P(2013), Encuentro Danza Cuautla, Morelos, Festival Internacional Palafoxiano,Festival "Soliloquios" y dentro de la cartelera (billboard listing)?? of INBA and the Teatro de la Danza DF. Fue Imagen ¿?? del FAD CCU-BUAP (2012, 13 Y 14). She was previously a faculty member for the degree program in Theater and Contemporary Circus Arts in the Universidad Mesoamericana of Puebla, Instituto Madero, Centro Integral de Danza SISTI and Minuette.

México, 1987. Choreographer gradúate from Ballet and Contemporary Dance National School. She has created works like: Devenir, Something Like Sisters, El Nuevo mundo, among others. She has also performed with Stars Don't Stand Still in the Dark de Anaïs Bouts y Rodrigo Valero-Puertas, Vera Icon, de Inti Santamaría y Engrapaje de Karina Terán. She has collaborated in Dance for the camera like Bee Mine of Alfredo Salomón. Her photographic work was selected by the Reforma newspaper to publish the dance for the camera work 12MOAI.

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Heather Doyle is a dance artist from the piedmont of North Carolina, currently living and creating in so-called Washington, DC, occupied Piscataway territory. Heather has recently worked on dance projects with Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance and Katie Sopoci Drake. She has performed in DC with Tzveta Kassabova, Human Landscape Dance, Graham Brown, Nathan Andary, mansurdance, Deborah Riley Dance Projects, and as a guest with Dance Box Theatre and PearsonWidrig Dance Theater. She was engaged in logistical and production support as part of the Dance Exchange’s How to Lose a Mountain project. Heather owes deep gratitude for her creative work in North Carolina to Niki Juralewicz, the Informall Theater Company, and the John Gamble Dance Theater. Her choreography has been presented by Movement Research’s Open Performance, the North Carolina Dance Project, the Greensboro Fringe Festival, Artomatic, and the Dinner Party. She practices and teaches Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis. Heather has extensive experience in dance production and supporting numerous emerging performing artists.

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Inti Santamaría B, México 1976. Visual artist graduated from UNAM. His work is drawing, graphics,paint, performance. He has been in over thirty visual arts collective shows in Mexico and Internationaly.In 2015 he published the book “La ondulación permanente”. He is University professor in paint and drawing. His main concern is: the human body: how to portray it visually and experience is from a live perspective. Therefore he collaborates constantly with dance performers like: 'Stars Don't Stand Still in the Night', 'Soma (Anatomía para la escena)' y 'Capas de memoria' (by de Galia Eibenschutz in collaboration with the Centro de Producción de Danza Contemporánea del INBA)

Ms. Serrano was born in Tecate, Baja California and is a choreographer, performer, and therapist. Her theater studies began in the city of Monterrey while she was studying International Relations at school and she discovered the body as an integral part of her everyday and artistic endeavors. In Italy she defined her theater formation through Grotwoski training and from there began her search for corporeal interpretation. She uses Butoh dance as a major tool of influence in order to develop her work as a performer. She is interested in the study of movement in relation with space and sound, and is also drawn to the possibilities of involving the audience as an active spectator. She has held her workshop in México and Europe, teaching courses on corporeal expression for the study of Dramatic Literature and Theater at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She is currently a member of the Society of Theater Studies focusing on the Aztec ballgame Tlahkitli. She is doing a certificate program in Gestalt psychotherapy and is a faculty member of the Círculo Teatral (Theater Society) teaching techniques of the body for actors.

Irma Olmedo graduated with a degree in Theater from the Universidad de las Américas at Puebla (UDLAP) and also with a degree in Acting from the Casa del Teatro in Mexico City. For the past ten years she has been a disciple of Diego Piñón and Butoh dance and she has applied this and her acting training in her creative process, which has thereby cumulated in a fusion of theater-dance. Since 2005 Ms. Olmedo has focused on giving workshops on Butoh training with an emphasis on its application on stage. As of November 2013 she has taken on a new path as a performer, together with director Vanessa Nieto, focusing on the creation of new dance pieces. And so Butoh Puebla was born, a space and a company dedicated to taking a closer look at the expression of these two idioms—theater and dance.

Mr. Esquinica Yañez is originally from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas and is an artist. He did a Master’s in composition at the National Music School of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM 2009-11) and an undergraduate degree in music at the Universidad de las Américas at Puebla (UDLAP, 2001-06), where he did a study abroad year at the University of Liverpool in England (2003-04). He has been drawing since he was a young child. He has attended many courses, workshops, and certificate programs such as: Artes Visuales, Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, 1999-2000, Festival Instrumenta, Puebla 2003 y 2004, Software Libre en The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, 2004, Diseño Multimedia para Interactividad UDLAP, Puebla 2005, Visiones Sonoras Morelia, Michoacán 2006, 2007 y 2015, among others. Iván has also been part of different ensembles, such as the chamber choir at UDLAP and Nakis y [radiador]. He has furthermore composed electro-acoustic, acoustic music, mixed, and audiovisual works and installations. He has collaborated through dance and theatre in collectives such as Tomate, El Semillero y Mano de Tierra, among others. He has also participated in various festivals such as: Corhabana, Cuba 2003, Florilege Vocal, Francia 2005, VI Foro de Humanidades "Arte y Virtualidad" UDLAP, Puebla 2009, Callejón del Ruido, Guanajuato 2009 y 2010, Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica Primavera en la Habana, Cuba 2010, Transitio_MX04, Ciudad de México 2010, and others. His work, both on his own as part of groups, has been presented in various states in México and abroad.

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Jeff Wallace is based in Lafayette, Indiana, and has been accumulating experiences and insights through movement teaching and performance for many years. His primary influences are Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Physical Theater, his past career in neuropsychology, and daily life. He has taught at numerous colleges and universities, and has performed and taught on 4 continents and in 11 countries. Jeff ‘s performance credits include the US premiere of Tino Segal’s installation of Kiss at Chicago’s MCA, the development and premiere of Adam Noble’s physical theater work Terminus, the premiere of Karl P Henning’s Ambiguous Strategies – Composition for clarinets, violins, percussion and dancer, and as movement coach for the Vitalist Theatre’s production of Mark Ravenhill’s “Pool (no water)”. He co-curated the dance component of Ireland’s 2015 First Fortnight Festival – a creative arts festival about mental health. He has performed in numerous other choreographic and improvisational dance works in venues including the Kennedy Center, the Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens, Club M in Tokyo, and the National Opera House in Guatemala. He has taught dancers, actors, opera singers, students, and special needs children. Over the course of his life, he has acquired a B.S. in Chemistry, a M.A. in Clinical/Counseling Psychology, and a passion for movement.

Independent Dance Artist and Movement Educator; Choreographer and Director; Alexander Technique Teacher; Nordic Ski Instructor and Mother of Boys.

Julie lives in Boulder, Colorado and shares her love of movement through dance making, performance, film and teaching throughout the world, in person and online. Her studio, FloorSpaceStudio, is a space where a variety of talented movement artists and dancers teach, create and share their work.

She is actively working with Chicken Bank Collective, a multidisciplinary, international arts collective,

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Kjerstin Lysne Palasthy (born Minneapolis, 1986) is a lifelong student of the Body. She began her studies with Ballet in her childhood home of Fargo, before studying Contemporary Dance at the Laban Centre in London and the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts, from which she graduated in 2008. She spent the following two seasons performing for, and teaching, kids throughout the Southeastern United States as a member of the children’s theater company, Open Dream Ensemble. She worked with several choreographers in Washington, DC, from 2010 to 2013, where and when she also experimented with collaboratively creating with follow dance and theater artists. Also during this time, she completed her yoga teacher training and began guiding classes. Her evolution as an artist was greatly impacted by her emigration to Belgium in 2014, where she first encountered Body Mind Centering and a community of artists that have expanded her perception of the potentials of a dance, or movement-based, artistic practice.

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La Colmena Danza Contemporánea: new independent group that seeks to generate creative processes based in the investigation and documentation to generate not only aesthetic proposals but also to promote the social participation. We think that dance and creation are meeting spaces, as activities to socialize, share and generate knowledge.

Lisa Kusanagi, a native of Tokyo, Japan, moved to the U.S. in 2007 where she received a BA in Theatre Arts and Dance from Sonoma State University (CA) and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University (VA). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla (MX). Kusanagi has choreographed and performed nationally and internationally at venues including Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Danspace Project (NYC), Harlem Stage (NYC), The Joyce Theater (NYC), Pacific Northwest Ballet (WA), the American Dance Festival (NC), ArtDanThé Festival (Paris) to name a few. Kusanagi creates and produces live performances and films as part of a collaborative partnership titled Kusanagi Sisters with her sister JuJu Kusanagi. Their film, "itsy bitsy", won 1st Place in the pre-professional category at the Utah Dance Film Festival (2016), the Audience Choice Award at 40 NORTH Dance Film Festival (2015), and has been playing on LED billboards in downtown Los Angeles as a part of L.A. Live since November 2015. The film has been screened at 21 film festivals in 4 countries and 10 U.S. states.

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HADAL Zona de Movimiento Artistic director. She has a BA in Choreography from the Escuela Nacional de Danza del INBA. Her work has been shown in CNA, in the National Museum of Art, El granero theater, La Vitrina, in Cervantino (2014). Recently she’s the scene director of PASIóN, and opera and contemporary dance show.

Melanie Maar is a New York based choreographer, dancer and teacher originally from Austria. She was awarded the 2015 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her work as a choreographer has been presented at Danspace Project, Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, Roulette, Judson Church Movement Research, Baryshnikov Arts Center, as well as Impuls Tanz Vienna, Tanzfabrik Berlin und Laboratorio Arte Alameda Mexico City. She currently teaches for Movement Research New York and recently for The Danish National Dance School, Pieter L.A. and with Laboratorio Somático Escénico in Mexico City. Maar closely collaborates with musician Kenta Nagai and the collective Masters of Ceremony. As a performer Maar has worked with luciana achugar, RoseAnne Spradlin, Daria Fain, Luis Lara Malvacias and others. www.melaniemaar.com

M. I. M. was born in 2008 as a permanent project of the Müuval Collective A.C, with the support of artists, businesses, associations, families, friends, and public institutions. We realize interdisciplinary projects in diverse spaces and forums in Mexico. We are a collective of contemporary dance that investigates diverse kinetic and auditory stimulations for the creation of an honest human language that incites the individuality, just as much as the creator, and just as much as the performer. In M.I.M. we create different movement styles through improvisation and contact improvisation; each piece is realized collectively, thus encouraging the authenticity of each person. Artistic Directo Carlos Rojas. Undergraduate degree from ENDCC through the INBA. Director of ORBE contemporary dance. Contemplates the aesthetic of dance theatre and collective collaboration for his creations. He addresses themes such as the symbolic, the dreamspace in physical space, and the human mind, through the use of improvisation techniques and the study of dramatic theatre. Aura Tantadel. Director and founder of Müuval Collective with an arts degree through the London Contemporary Dance School, with a specialization in the Limon Dance Foundation NY and a postgraduate degree cultural management. She has 12 years of practices in the field of contact improvisation around the word. She has presented her work in diverse settings in Mexico, the United States and Europe. Aura is interested in dance as experimental, sensory, and creative art.

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Olivia Mia Orozco, a dancer, actress and choreographer attended the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BFA in dance and a minor in philosophy. She has performed as a dancer throughout Los Angeles, New York and Mexico. She is extremely proud of the short film titled Temporal, which she choreographed, produced and directed for screening at the Colombia Gorge International Film Festival and in the International Dance film festival Brussels in Belgium. She has also had the opportunity to choreograph and dance in music videos for singer Mayer Hawthorne as well as other artists and choreographed fashion shows both at NYFW and LAFW. Olivia also has been seen both acting and dancing in numerous commercials for brands such as Levi's, Pepsi, and Red Bull.

He was born in México D.F. May 21 1990. At the age of 18 he started to do break dance with Miguel Rojas, then self-taught started to train Parkour. In 2009 he started to take classes of Chinese , Floor Acrobatics, Aerial dance, **. He also became part of Colectivo Arte en Decadencia, and researched Parkour as an scenic resource. In 2011 he was part of the first diploma in circus arts by CirkoDemente, where he specialized in floor acrobatics and mano a mano, graduating in December 2012. From there he has been part of collectives and small companies that work with mixing circus with dance and theater, like Colectivo de Aquí de Allá. He has worked in traditional circus as in contemporary circus, he wishes to be part of companies that have an purposeful speech and become a versatile performer. My personal research looks to mix acrobatic techniques with dance, and to break down technique in order to make new variations, to find a personal movement style so I can have a wider possibility in scenic art companies.

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Born in Mexico city, she resides in Queretaro since 2007. BA in Scenic Arts by Contemporary Dance with the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.Circis Artist, Independent teacher,Stage Manager, Rigger since 2000. She is artistic and cultural director of Falak Espacio Cultural and co-founder of Bravo por el Arte A.C. She also is beginning the cultural project: Circo Social. Acercándonos a todos, which seeks to take art to any vulnerable zone in Mexico. Actually she is developing an artistic interdisciplinary co-production with collective “Par de Tres” from Salamanca Gto with dance theater and circus.

Patty L. Solórzano (MFA University of Michigan) is a choreographer, dancer, and artist working at the intersection of dance improvisation, choreography, and environment. Born and raised in Michoacán, México, she received her BFA from Texas Christian University and upon graduation worked with various dance companies and projects throughout Houston, TX including Psophonia Dance Company and Earthen Vessels: The Sandra Organ Dance Company. Patty has presented her choreography in the Estada Intertour Dansa (Spain), 60x60 St. Louis, and at Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex. In 2011, she relocated to Michigan where she danced for DDCdances, Kristi Faulkner Dance, Ann Arbor Dance Works and People Dancing. Her work has been shown at the Detroit Dance City Festival, DDCdances, the Michigan Dance Festival, and the American College Dance Association. Most recently she traveled to Bari, Italy for a teaching and performance residency with ResExtensa DansaTeatroDansa. Currently, Patty is training with Vertigo Dance Company in Jerusalem, Israel while continuing her choreographic research linking environmental issues and psychology with dance.

Born in Sonora State, Mexico, he studied Ingenería de Cibernética Electrónica (ICE, Electronic Cybernetics Engineering) at Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior (CETYS) University. Mr. Nuñez studied with Antares Danza Contemporánea under the aegis of Miguel Mancillas and Isaa Chau. He has taken making courses with teachers such as Cecilia Lugo, Benito González, Guillermo Maldonado, Solange Lebourges, Luis Mario Moncada, Guillermo Granillo, Eugenio Barba, Roberta Carreri, Alcibiades Zaldívar, Claudio Valdés Kuri, Dardi McGinley, Gabriela Medina y Ana González, among others. He is a guest artist with Antares en Polígono Irregular. He is also a member of Dédalo Arte Escénicas A.C. where he developed himself professionally as a choreographer and performer while searching for his own language through his training. He was a Baja California grant recipient (2008), Sonora (2009, 2012, 2015), Hermosillo (2011) and in residence at the Centro Cultural La Granja (2011, 2013).He is artistic director of Son/a en Movimiento, a street festival for dance in Hermosilla.

Peter Sciscioli is a Brooklyn-based performer, creator, educator and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. Since 1997 he has been creating interdisciplinary performance works through a choreographic lens with a wide variety of collaborators, for concert, site-specific and theater venues around the world. In 2008, he created Peter Sciscioli Performance Projects, and in 2012, founded the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium, a network of artists and producers working across disciplines and cultures. Peter has worked extensively with composer/singer/director Meredith Monk in a variety of capacities since 2003. He has additionally performed in work by such luminaries as Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Daria Fain, Philip Glass and Mary Zimmerman, Susan Marshall, Fiona Templeton, and as a member of Jane Comfort and Company (2004-2010), in U.S. and European venues including BAM, the Barbican, City Center, Goodman Theater and The Joyce Theater. From 1996-2002, Peter was also a performer and choreographer with Hedwig Dances and the Chicago Moving Company in Chicago, Illinois. Peter's interdisciplinary works and collaborations have been presented throughout New York City and Chicago; in Alaska, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Utah and Vermont; and in Brazil, Honduras, Croatia, Macedonia and Mexico. He has been a resident choreographer at The Yard, White Oak Plantation, Earthdance, the National School of Dance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and the Zagreb Student Center-Culture of Change in Croatia. Peter has recently received support from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts, Movement Research and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. He has taught at Duke University, MIT, Oberlin College (his alma mater), Stanford University, Trinity College, University of Maryland and University of Utah, among others. Currently Peter continues his work with Meredith Monk, teaches his Voice as Movement course for the Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Semester program, and serves as curator of the Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance. www.petersciscioli.com

A network of international exchange and mobilization in Ecuador. Taxi is an itinerant project, which bases its work in the multidisciplinary, research, collaboration, and cultural exchange and uses contemporary dance as its unifying force. Our objectives include multiculturalism by showing artistic and cultural exchange through our productions which are created in our collective coexistence or through dual nation projects (Ecuador-México). We seek to expose audiences the works of artists from diverse countries. We also work on researching through training and advanced classes for artistic reciprocity. Our mission includes familiarizing ourselves with, sharing, collaborating and building international bridges with people from different countries and thereby creating a network of artistic contacts. Our values are based on being honest, creative, proactive, coherent, and impeccable. There are many objectives that we share, which include collaboration, artistic training. We seek to establish links between institutions for young, developing artists for the professional training. General Director: Javier Alejandro Pérez Caicedo, B.A. (Ecuador); teacher, choreographer, cultural advisor: Alejandra Juárez Aguilar, B.A. (México); teacher, choreographer, logististics collaboration, master choreographer: Gabriela Rosero (Ecuador).

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Rebecca Bryant creates dance works that combine movement with sound, text, video, and objects. Originally trained in visual art, Bryant's dances emphasize improvisational methods and performative states, as well as non-hierarchical collaboration within/across disciplines and site-specific performance. Bryant has performed and shown her work in 22 states across the USA and in Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. She is an active collaborator; she worked extensively with the Lower Left Performance Collective for 13 years and is a co-founder of PMPD (dance/music/new media). Bryant's collaborative projects have brought her into creative relationships with over 120 artists from diverse backgrounds, including multi-national music collective Trummerflora, The Taco Shop Poets, hip hop choreographer Grace Jun, Argentine filmmaker/dancer Paula Zacharias, Polish theater director Jurek Sawka, and German visual artist Fabian Winkler. Her projects have received support from residencies at Earthdance (USA), Djerassi Resident Artist Program (USA), Guapamacátaro Art and Ecology Residency (Mexico), Camac Centre D'Art (France), and a choreographic grant from the Puffin Foundation. Bryant has danced for renowned and emerging choreographers including Victoria Marks, Nina Martin, Wally Cardona, Kim Epifano, Shelley Senter, Lionel Popkin, Marianne Kim, Sandra Mathern-Smith, and Manuelito Biag. She has taught workshops on ensemble improvisation in New York, Stockholm, Oslo, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogota, and at the Los Angeles Improvisational Dance Festival, West Coast Contact Improv Festival, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Contact Festival Freiburg (Germany), TransContact Festival (Romania), Kontakt Budapest Festival (Hungary), and at numerous universities across the USA. She holds a BA in Visual Art and an MFA in Dance, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at California State University, Long Beach.

Renee Murray, Visiting Assistant Professor of the Division of Dance at Purdue University, is a Chicago native and artistic director, choreographer, and dancer of Matter of Reaction Movement Project, a modern dance company founded in Chicago in 2006.She received her MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach in 2011. Her work has been seen throughout Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her current research and choreography investigates how an awareness of our environment can affect the process of creation and the performance of dance. Her works are often created through collaboration and improvisation with dancers and artists from varied disciplines. Murray's research focuses on the reality of her dancers' bodies within the environment of each performance. The movement and structures of her choreography are generated within an improvisational rehearsal process that focuses on how one's environment can inform the work. Murray has also performed works by various artists at the Dora Stratou Theater in Athens, Greece, Sushi in San Diego, San Francisco Art Institute, Highways in Santa Monica, the Orange County Museum of Art, New Jersey, and throughout Chicago. In 2007 she performed Tino Sehgal's "Kiss" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Murray is currently teaching multiple levels of modern and jazz technique in the Division of Dance at Purdue University and has taught in the Dance Department at CSULB. Murray graduated from Purdue University in 2006 majoring in Communication with a minor in Dance. While there, she danced and choreographed for the Purdue Repertory Dance Company. She has also performed with Sally Wallace, RTG Dance and T J & Company Dance Theater.

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp is a choreographer, dancer, artist and educator. With a BFA in Performing Arts/Dance from Emerson College and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts. Rose’s interests lie in integrating dance, theater, design, and media. Her desire to integrate social activism into her choreography began with her thesis, focusing on Social Constructionism as it relates to movement. In addition, she is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA) which has rooted all of her work in somatics and body awareness. Rose’s choreography is full of weighted athleticism with a slight hint of quirkiness. She is a lover of the off-vertical and an explorer of movement that traverses 3-dimensional possibilities. Partnering work and contact improvisation naturally integrate the contemporary dance forms she investigates. Rose has been extremely active in each of the communities she has lived and worked in. As the Artistic Director of inFluxdance and Co-Artistic Director of 83 Paper Birds, a moving lab, her full-length work has been featured in various cities internationally including Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto and Mexico. She has been selected for residencies and performance projects including the Dance Complex’s I-ARE Residency in Cambridge MA, Green Street Performance Works Project, Sugar Space Artist in Residence in Salt Lake City UT and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 2009 Choreographers Lab where she received the 2009 Emerging Artist Award. Rose was nominated for the Most Innovative Choreography Award at the Montreal Fringe Festival 2011 for her work with inFluxdance. Her choreography has been shown on the Fringe Festival Circuit where the company was voted Best in Festival at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2007 and 2008. She has danced with many contemporary companies and contact improvisation projects in cities across the country including San Francisco, Boston, and Central Virginia. Rose has taught at various universities for the past 10 years. These include Emerson College, Alfred University, The College at Brockport and the University of Virginia where, as the Head of Dance, she developed the dance program from the ground up. Much of her artistic research in the academic environment centers around collaboration across disciplines, finding ways to integrate dance with architecture, art, psychology, engineering, art, and music. She has spent a great deal of time presenting at international conferences and dance intensives with a focus on dance and social activism. In 2012 this work culminated in a featured art installation centering around Dance and Social Change at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Currently, Rose is serving as Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the School of Dance at Dean College and Director of The Movement Exchange in Pawtucket, RI.

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Choreographer, movement and somatic methods researcher. Her work focuses on independent choreographic creations, and study and teaching of somatic education to deepen in movement research through her pedagogical project Movimiento Puro. She has studied contemporary dance methods and somatic movement studies, specifically “Somaritmos” by Ninoska Gómez, and body therapy; with the interest to investigate la roots of movement from different perspectives to enrich her work. She does her choreographic work based from Somatics, Authentic Movement and from ancestral physical disciplines like yoga,Derviche, and Ki Gong, which she introduces to contemporary dance in order to experiment in new ways of movement creation.

A project created by Ariadna Franco and Diana Sánchez Rodrígues, dancers, choreographers, and educators in somatic movement. Our investigation of somatic movement applied to dance was incited by the benefactor Prodducción de Danza Nacional (INBA- CONACULTA) to work during the year 2013, presenting shows and workshops for performative artists and the general public, in diverse parts of the Mexican Republic. In 2014 we initiated a series of projects with the objective of continual exposure to the Somatic Movement technique in the performative arts: El Laboratorio de Movimiento Somático para artistas escénicos (presenting at the Encuentro de Nueva Música y Nueva Danza), the Laboratorio de Movimiento Somático e Improvisación de Contacto and different specialized workshops (UNAM, CAMP-IN).

Susannah Simpson is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily in dance, performance art, poetry, and vocalization, and is a co-founder of the feminist spiritual community Moon Church. Her writing and visual art have been published in the Cellar Door, Moon Church Zines I and II, and Familiars Quarterly, Vol 1., and she published her first collection of poems, I’ll Give It To You, in September 2015. In New York she has performed at Dance New Amsterdam, Body Actualized Center, and the Whitney Museum as part of the Clitney Perennial, and at various venues and art spaces throughout the city, US, and abroad. She regularly curates experimental dance and art events, including Weird Love: A Night of Womance (Women+Performance!) and Demeter’s Wheat, An Evening of Autumnal Performance Art. She teaches yoga and movement classes, and co-leads a workshop called Women’s Rejuvenation Circle dedicated to female healing and empowerment through connection to the body and sacred sensuality. Her current piece, Warm Women, of which she is creator and director, is preparing for a national tour in 2016.

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Tanja London is a German choreographer, filmmaker, performer, researcher and teacher based in SLC, Utah/USA. Her stage and screendance work explores sociopolitical and ecological discourses such as erosion of democracy, culture and biotechnology, neuroscience and robotics, inherited guilt, as well as sustainability. Her work has been seen internationally in Europe, Asia and the US. Besides studying Social Pedagogy in Germany she graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance from The Place (London, UK) and holds a MFA in Modern Dance including a Screendance Certificate from the University of Utah.

Tanja grew up in Germany, rummaging around in the beautiful wide spread forest of the South and in her family’s WWII history. The forest instilled her love for nature and is the foundation of her interest in ecology. Tanja’s family history made her question hierarchical power structures on multiple levels. Curiosity always led her to ask a lot of questions, mostly at the wrong time. As this habit prevails, querying sociopolitical constructs and seeking alternatives to hierarchical structures became an integral part of her.

Since Tanja graduated from her MFA in 2013, she has been presenting research at two different Performance Studies International conferences and has been touring her screendance “occupation” internationally in small festivals and conferences. The last three Fall Seasons Tanja has been co-creating and performing with tatraum projekte schmidt, a German TheaterDancePerformance Project from Düsseldorf dedicated to cultural dialogue through live performance. This year, she has been choreographing and coining Speakers’ Corner Salt Lake City, a think tank art series, which is dedicated to free speech and solution oriented discussion. This platform brings together a diverse range of voices, providing round table discussions with citizens and experts, as well as thought provoking art from a variety of disciplines. The topics for this year were the Environment - Water Sustainability, Human Rights - Police Brutality, and Free Speech.

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I am a mover, dancer, director, creator, producer, teacher, activist, artist. I live my life with the challenge to do things that mean something to me and help the communities/bioregions that I am part of. This usually takes a very dry sense of humor.

I have practiced contact improvisation, improvisation, and contemporary dance theater for over 23 years. I am a director/producer/ performer of multimedia site specific performance experiences. I am a directing member of zen monkey project, started @hand productions, and recently have co-created chicken bank collective; weaving communities across borders through the art of movement.

I am a teacher of many skill sets, recently focusing on creating dance and the practice of improvisation. I am a visual artist, and often make all the costumes, sets, props, lights and promotional materials for most of the projects I'm involved in, as well as art for art's sake. I coordinate/produce and teach educational intensives.

Over the last 20 years I have traveled extensively across the United States and in Mexico; directing, teaching, collaborating. I am fiercely dedicated to the environment, it's protection and passionate about art as a tool to create awareness, action, and unit.