The Dancers

Cuba - USA

The mission of Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film, directed by the choreographer Alexey Taran and filmmaker Carla Forte, is to carry out research, development, and to take aesthetic and physical risks, trying to break the pre-established boundaries between dance, theater and film. There is a special intent to communicate ideas clearly and unpretentiously, giving a humanistic quality to artwork, insisting on the importance of questioning preconceived notions about what dance, film and theater can and should be.

Bird Woman 

Bird Woman is a multimedia performance that fuses dance, film, original music and sound installation. It is based on and inspired by stories of Latina immigrant women. The piece explores the human condition and translates their stories into gestures, emotions and movements, creating a new language to express these women thoughts, desires, emotions and hopes.

México - Ecuador

Binational professional company (Ecuador-Mexico) of contemporary dance and theater; based in the city of Durango-Mexico; with more than 10 years of experience in the Latin American scene; founded by Lic. Alejandra Juárez Aguilar (Mx) and the Master Javier Alejandro Pérez Caicedo (ECU); they promote the exchange, promotion and production of contemporary dance from interdisciplinary and cultural exchange. Directors and founders of the Dolores del Río International Contemporary Dance Festival; 10 days TAXI Congress of Extreme Arts and Movement and the Choreographic Research Center of Northern Mexico. Spaces for the visibility of the dance of the world for the North of Mexico and of the North of Mexico for the world. His work has been present in Ecuador-Argentina-Brazil

Colombia-Costa Rica-Germany and the Mexican Republic. They currently collaborate with festivals, companies, universities and production houses in the mentioned countries. La Revuelta Laboratorio Escénico is established as a relevant project for the development of dance in Ecuador and Mexico. We seek to create spaces for the meeting and exchange of ideas from Music, Theater, Cinema, Plastic Arts around Contemporary Dance.

Blanco

Choreographic, plastic, literary exercise. Azul is the center, she is a girl, a baby, she is a reason for everything. A gift from a mother and a father for their daughter through the poetry of Girondo, Cortazar and Paz.

Impro

Instructionstodisappear. Subtlemovementscoresfor improvisation, spaceandpoetics.

Costa Rica

Javier Jimenez Barboza began his movement explorations at the age of 14, which later led him to study his career in dance at the National University. At the age of 19 he founded “Plan B”, his most symbolic personal project, a democratizing space for dance in the neighborhoods south of San Jose. In 2011, he entered the Open Dance program at the University of Costa Rica, which

is one of the most recognized training programs for dancers from the country. Later he became part of the National Dance Company of Costa Rica (2012-2017) and was a dance teacher at the Castella Conservatory. Javier is a bachelor in dance, has a degree in teaching and a master's degree in educational sciences, as well as being a researcher on training processes for dancers. At the moment is in the administrative coordination and artistic direction Open Dance, is professor at the School of General Studies of the University of Costa Rica, dancer independent, and continues directing his project "Plan B", where he also carries out his staging linked to the treatment of human rights.

Tiempos Difíciles

On most occasions we grow up with the dream of the perfect life. The idea is built and fed from our infant stage, with that premise of what we want to become and what we must achieve, according to standards that do not measure or specify the value of the intangible. The dream of a job that we are passionate about, of a profession that makes us happy and motivates us, is often just that, a dream for some who die trapped in their reality. The dream is modified, just as time changes and modifies life itself. you live for work, to survive. The dream of the ideal job is reserved for a few people. Exploitation begins with the idea of a better future, and ends with the reality of Don't die trying to live.

Espejos Rotos

“When the trip has fragments, all that remains is to create something new, beyond what was, beyond what could be. The trip will then be of that something new, valuable... different and beautiful." From the poetics of dance, concepts raised by psychiatry and psychology, with metaphors of self-perception problems, constant criticism of the own being and the idea that nothing will ever be enough. It is appreciated then, a brief journey to healing, from self-acceptance and revaluation of one's life, in this particular individual beauty that we human beings have.

Ecuador

As a soloist, she has worked at the National Dance Company in Ecuador, Städtische Bühnen Münster, Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück and Staatstheater Darmstadt with Birgitta Trommler in Germany; Theater Hermitage Moscow; with Montse Colomé and Jaumet Bernabet from Els Comediants. Fellow of the Ludmila Yikova Institute in Bulgaria, of the laboratories choreographies by Susan Rethorts and Àngels Margarit, in Barcelona. Graduate in educational sciences from PUCE. UASB Scholar in the Master's Degree of Cultural Studies mention Art. Master of the Master of Pedagogy in arts of the UTPL. Member of the Permanent Seminary of Phenomenology of Dance of the Gloria Contreras Extraordinary Chair of UNAM since 2020. Scholarship holder of the Thought Diploma strategy for the management and incidence of dance in the current society of the Latin American Dance Platform. Yoga teacher and technologist in Ayurveda by Yoga Vidya Akademie in Germany.

Poner el corazón en el pecho

Sometimes a clean slate is necessary to strip off and prepare with new poetic beginning.

Cuba - USA

Gabriela Burdsall (b. 1989, Havana) is a Cuban-American hyper-hyphenated dancer and choreographer. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, theater, performance, and the visual arts, working with memory explorations, the Caribbean, and rhythm as a material source. She graduated from the National Dance School, and completed her bachelor's at the University of the Arts in Cuba. From 2007-2015, she worked at the national dance company Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. In recent years, she collaborated with William Ruiz Morales (2016-2022), Naama Tsabar (2022), and Malin Bülow (2023) in pieces presented at the Bass Museum, Kinosaito Art Center, and Atchugarry Gallery.

Aqui

Aquí is a multifaceted self-portrait. Objects, film, images, and dance become one moving body, one expanded subject exhibited on scene. The dancer’s experience is built with crossing stories and affections; stories without borders that get mixed and intertwined. The piece is a ritual for affirming our presence, affirming life, and everyday life’s poetry. Aquí is a Gabriela Burdsall choreography in collaboration with Dramaturg William Ruiz Morales, Cinematographers Gilliam de la Torre and Liliet Reyes, Costume Artist Odie Senesh, Architect Daniela Friedman, and Composer Nina Fukuoka.

Perú

Hevia Dance Company is a consolidated contemporary dance group created in the city of Barcelona in 1993. It is currently a resident company of the Great National Theater of Peru. His language brings together techniques of classical, modern and contemporary dance, achieving a personal texture with a marked poetic accent, achieving a choreographic aesthetic that delves into the roots of contemporary language. Pepe Hevia was born in Havana - Cuba on June 2, 1971, a teacher of recognized national and international trajectory. Graduated from the National School of Dance - ENA, in the city of Havana, in 1989, becoming the most important mentor of young people creators of the Cuban avant-garde of the eighties. He has been awarded in multiple disciplines, among which stand out recognitions for the realization of audiovisual works, both in Cuba and in Mexico. In addition, he has received the National Dance Prize in Costa Rica - 2013, the First Prize of Choreography at the Burgos / New York International Choreography Contest - 2009 and the First Prize in the Choreographic Contest of Maspalomas / Gran Canary Islands – 2000, among others.

PIEDRAS / Memoria de las rocas

Dancing starting from a breath, as an offering to the universe, can take us to transmute the energy of the bodies to a parallel symbolism of the immobility, to the mystery of the STONES, of the rocks. Stones that since ancient times were considered in connection with the divine and here dancing through the memory of the stones remind us of what is sacred of life.

Costa Rica

MARIO VIRCHA is an internationally recognized choreographer, dancer, educator, and former artistic director of the National Dance Company of Costa Rica. Vircha's choreography has been performed at festivals and dance centers in the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Spain, France, Greece and Jordan. As a dancer, he has performed with the National Dance Company of Costa Rica, Chamber Dance Company of the National University of Costa Rica, and COREConcert Dance Company. Vircha has taught at the University of Michigan, University of Georgia, University of Utah, National University of Costa Rica and Costa Rica University. Vircha has an MA in Dance from the National University of Costa Rica, and an MFA and Certification in World Performance Studies from the University of Michigan, USA. He is currently the artistic director of the Chamber Dance Company of the National University of Costa Rica.

La Consagración...

It is a free version of The Rite of Spring that delves into the creative explosion of the earth as the maximum symbol of fertility and promoter of the creative power of the human being.

Costa Rica

William Retana Alfaro began his artistic training at the Conservatory Castella. Subsequently, he studied the training program Danza Abierta de UCR. He is co-founder of the group 33 Danza, which has focused on choreographic and interpretive research. Has formed part of casts such as that of the National Dance Company of Costa Rica and IMAGODANZA, in addition to participating in different projects independently. He is a dancer interested in stage interpretation, choreographic creation and body exploration from the characteristics of themselves and of others.

Sujeto a una constante

Inquire about the non-verbal message contained in the bodies. Dwell desires, fears, uncertainties, and restlessness, a kind of common tear built from personal situations. Created with apparent disparate and random elements that become short episodes of dialogue.

México

Betsaida PARDO and Jairo HELI are a duo of scenic creators, producers, educators and researchers who have embarked on a journey together, finding a very particular stamp in their creations and projects since 2006. The three time nominees for the 'Lunas del Auditorio' award have consolidated two dance platforms that are part of the national scene, such as Agave Intercambio Escénico and Hikuri Danza, this being the initial platform of their artistic search. PARDO-HELI are lovers of indigenous manifestations and Latin American expressions, they combine a hybrid language inspired by the ritual dances of the Americas while interacting with contemporary languages. PARDO-HELI are considered among the most purposeful Mexican choreographers in the United States. Their works and productions have been presented in the United States, Asia, Europe, Central and South America, among which are: REDBEAT / Colorado Ballet, TAL DANCE / Kristen Shapero Cia., MICTLAN RX / Cleo Parker Robinson, MYSTICAL ABBYS / Yugen Theater Japan, SIX / Hikuri Dance, NAVIDADES EN MÉXICO / Folkloric Ballet of Mexico by Amalia Hernandez. In 2007 they won the CIOFF-UNESCO national prize for their work on the Mazahua nation and in 2011 they won first place in university dance in the United States with their work "TIEMPO SAGRADO" for the Pan-American Texas University, presented at the Kennedy Center of the Arts in Washington D.C. They have received the Scenic Creators with Trajectory fund by the System of Support for Creation and Cultural Projects (Mexico -SACPC) and currently they are Members of the National System of Art Creators, one of the most important appointments for artists in Mexico.

TLAOLLI

TLAOLLI narrates stories that show us the journey of indigenous, Afro-descendant and mestizo peoples through the American continent. This pilgrimage brings us closer to the sacred mountains

where the deities give them seeds of all colors so that they can share them with the beings that inhabit the Tatei Yurienaka (Mother Earth). Sacred mountains where women and men watch the corn grow while admiring how all of its colors articulate a message of union against racism, classism and xenophobia.

It is said that in the mountains are the messages.

It is said that in the mountains are the answers.

The cast of TLAOLLI is made up of a notable group of Mexican artists, including: the choreographer Betsaida Pardo, the dancer Angelica Baños, the prolific musician Topiltzin Borsegui, the dancer Nandy Luna, the multidisciplinary artist Jairo Heli.