In a nutshell…
Facilitator, learning designer, artist, and researcher with a background in Art, Latin American History, and Performance Studies. My curiosity has led the way in my life and I find joy in performance, theory, videography, creative pedagogy, dramaturgy, facilitation, and writing, I love supporting creative processes and thinking together with others to co-create imaginative and critical tools. My practice is embedded within feminism and decolonial frames that help me critically understand the current socio-political and affective conditions of our world and re-imagine alternatives possible.
Core Competencies
Community Building & Engagement
Creative Pedagogy & Instructional Design
Dramaturgy & Artistic Research
Project Management & Strategic Planning
Emotional Intelligence & Team Collaboration
Facilitation of Learning & Trainer Coordination
Professional Experience
Learning Design Expert & Trainer Coordinator RNW Media | 2022 – Present
Led the design and implementation of courses on digital content creation, media campaigns, and social change strategies.
Designed learning paths for partners and coalitions across multiple regions, including MENA, Southeast Africa, and West Asia.
Oversaw trainer coordination, ensuring the adoption of effective facilitation techniques and maintaining quality education standards.
Lead Education Design Consultant Rainforest Alliance | 2021-2022
Led the design, implementation, and production of RA auditing process trainings.
Served as a creative consultant for E-course designs, enhancing both internal and external educational resources.
Guest Lecturer - Artistic Research Gerrit Rietveld Academy | 2020
Conducted a one-month intensive course focusing on performativity in the Jewelry-Linking Bodies department.
Facilitated 'Hydrofemism', a practical artistic research course, in the context of Oceanic Imaginaries culminating in an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Curricular Design Lead Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP) | MX 2017
Developed the "Bailando ven-seremos" dance improvisation program for Mexico City public middle schools.
Implemented the new public educational model and trained over 60 teachers, impacting sixty public schools.
Education
Master of Arts in Artistic Research (2018 - 2020) ArtEZ Arnhem, NL
BA in Art History (2013 - 2017) Universidad Iberoamericana, CDMX, MX
BA in Latin American History (2011 - 2013) Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, MX
BA in Dance (1997-2008) Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, MX & Escuela Nacional de Ballet, La Habana, Cuba
Additional Professional Experience
Dancer, Choreographer, and Researcher in various artistic projects and festivals.
Published Author and Editor with contributions to the field of Choreographic Translations.
Taller Coreográfico, UNAM | 2012-2016 - Dancer
ISSUE: An archive of Collective struggles - Lead Editor, producer, and writer of fanzine
Dancer and choreographer: 'Indigo' (Alejandro Guzmán) Sonsbeek Festival, NL 2021
Dancer in Liat Mcnezy company, 2019-2021
Performer 'Enjambre' (Fabian Santarciel) Come Together Festival, 2019, NL Member of
Lost Movement Collective artistic research, NL 2020-2022
Writer at Choreographic Translations: published book: “Invisible Dances for Everyday Survivors”, Rotterdam, NL 2021-2022
“Agency of Noise” H&H - Bonnoto Archive. Choreographer together with Maria Pisiou f
Skills
Expertise in Instructional Design and Project Management.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Illustrator, After Effects).
Advanced Office Suite management (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Learning Management Systems (LMS) administration.
Languages
Spanish (Native)
English (C2)
Dutch (B1)
Continued Professional Development
Courses in Narrative Therapy & Community Work, (Michael White) by Colectivo Practicas Narrativas, MX (2021)
Seminar Walter Benjamin: Archives: Technologies of Memory by Elisa Mizrahi, MUAC, UNAM, MX (2018)
Becoming Cyborg: Postfeminist & Decolonial perspectives, UNAM, MX (2024)
Artistic Residencies across Europe, contributing to an international perspective on performance and education.
“We are all AI” by NYU – an ethical perspective to AI adoption and regulation. NL, 2024
References
Available upon request.
Choreographic tools for the real world: researching dance that matters.
How can I contribute?
When I was a dancer I learned to focus on the moments of transitions, and how things change; I became sensitive to breaking points, I could read them, expect them, and intuit them. Having this intuition provided an advantage point: a perspective not focused on static realities but on interrelated processes. One of the main concerns in my practice today is finding connections and implications in creative processes, attending to the conditions provided, and looking for ways to enable alternative and critical outcomes.
Dance is my medium but I do not believe dance is limited to a stage; it can be an artistic practice but it can also be a method for approaching problems, a tool for training awareness, a social strategy for change. This expanded vision of dance has been the focus of my research for the past years and from it I have developed strategies for collaboration, political inclusion, and poetic imagination, all of which are necessary for imagining and realizing better futures.