About

Dancer & Choreographer​

Amanda Romero

Amanda Romero is a Peruvian/German choreographer based in Cologne (Germany) whose work focuses on ritual practices within the relationship between humans and nature from a transcultural perspective.

She is currently pursuing a masters in choreography at ZhdK Zürich. Since 2018 she has worked within german venues and institutions like Tanzfaktur, PACT, tanzhaus nrw, Theater im Ballsaal, Quartier am Hafen, Sprungbrett Tanzrecherche, tanz nrw, FONDS, Kampnagel, Suzanne Dellal and Studios der Kulturellen Bildung.

As co-founder of .Dencuentro, together with Greta Salgado and Constanza Ruiz, the collective has developed methods for artistic work, they created a dance production (SINP’A, 2020) and several mediation formats.

Her last research focuses on movement and dance as a practice of resistance to ecological colonization and human detachedment from natur. She utilizes dance and performance as a medium to heal the wounded relationship between the human species and the ecosystem.
Landscapes and “more-than-human” creatures are her protagonist and inspiration.

As a performer she had the pleasure to work with artists such as Katharina Gun Oehlert, Benedetta Reuter, Ursina Tossi, Malin Harff, Marje Hirvonen, Christi Knack Tschaikowskaja, Margherite Windblut, Zafer Tursun, Rafaele Giovanola, Alma Miranda, StefanPanhans & Andrea Winkler, Thies Mynther, Maurits Boettger, Heike Simmer, Theresa Weber and others.

Bio

(Autobiographical)

Having grown up in Peru I have had the privilege to experience dance through so many facets. I experienced it as a social resistance movement, as a tool to find a place in a society of precariousness and chaos. At the same time, I learned dancing in private classes as a hobby for those who could afford it. Both, very different approaches that shaped me. From a young age I could observe that dance is not only a specific style or art form, it is an inevitable human expression present in every possible form, depending on who practices it, where and when.

To so many questions I have found the body and its movement to store the answers. To so many social and political restrictions created by the “word”, I believe dance has the power to transform, unite and liberate.

Since 2013 I live in Cologne, Germany, one of the kindest and most open cities I know. There, I did a Bachelor in Contemporary Dance and have been working as a freelance performer and choreographer since 2017. Besides, I am also a Pilates Trainer and love to guide office sitting people to build strength and stability in their bodies.

During all these years I have carried various identities in me, still trying to get in touch with all of them until now, as they all have roots in different regions of the world. A German grandmother born during the second world war in Berlin, a Peruvian grandfather with Italian roots from a little village called Pisco on the coast, a Peruvian grandmother from the coast north from Lima, the capital of Peru and an Aimara grandfather from the Titicaca lake high up the Andes mountains.

My artistic work always contains the perspective of all of those identities. I passionately allow folkloric dances of resistance into my work, whilst also being influenced by the trends of the western art and pop world. Inside of me, they all live equally and their coexistence is the result of my global mixed identity.