bio


Young Mexican artist who pretends to be cool and indifferent, with an attitude that says who cares, its only art. Defender of self-pedagogy, he has always opted for an independent pathway, avoiding formal schools, and searching for a personal way through study and discourse. As a choreographer and performer, he is interested in questioning a priori assumptions of the performative arts and its political implications, and in contemporary dance as an art practice that comes from and goes back to contemporary society, not only in content, but in shape and structure too.

Along his career, he studied flute professionally (then quit and never played again); worked as a light technician in an independent dance theatre; made production assistance for the thirtieth anniversary season of concerts of Juan Gabriel, the ultimate pop-folk Mexican singer in the National Auditorium of Mexico; was part of the thinking and organizing of Prisma-Forum, an arts conference with no precedent in Latin America, sings brilliantly, and draws terribly.

In 2010, he was given the danceWEB scholarship inside the ImPulsTanz Festival. His first piece, F.U.M.A.R. (that studies the relation between pleasure and insatisfaction, and the possibility to communicate with the audience in a sensorial, non intellectual way), has been sporadically performed since the end of 2009. At the end of 2010, he received the Young Creators grant, in México, which supports his current project: a self-portrait solo that questions notions like personal identity, originality or authenticity.
He is currently working with Colectivo AM, a group of dance related artists in Mexico who are interested in de-dogmatizing the practice, and linking it to theory; and with other young artists from Sweden and Croatia, Canada, and this year, perhaps Berlin and the US too.