Since 2013 I have lived 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 humans 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 from 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. In other words, I work focusing on ritual practices in the relationship between humans and nature from a transcultural perspective.
Currently I am pursuing a masters in choreography at ZhdK Zürich. In the past I have 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 the collective .Dencuentro, together with Greta Salgado and Constanza Ruiz, we developed methods for artistic collective work, we developed a dance production and several mediation formats.
My last research focuses on movement and dance as a practice of resistance to ecological colonization and as a medium for healing the wounded relationship between the human species and the ecosystem. Landscapes and “more-than-human” creatures are my protagonist and inspiration.
As a performer I 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.
