Scholar Publications
López-Yánez, G. y Herrera B. How Do You Desire to Dance? A Methodological Assemblage to Foster Consent in Dance Higher Education from Ecuador. Istanbul University Journal of Women’s Studies.
Poveda, J. y Herrera, B. (2023) Arte en permanente riesgo de deslave: Intersubjetividad, contingencia y la epistemología del cuerpo en el montaje de “Ansia” (2016). Capítulo del libro 50 años de la Facultad de las Artes de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito. 112-123 pp.
Poveda, J., Herrera, B. y Mendizábal, M. (2022) Forced Secularization and Postmodern Discourses within Contemporary Performance: Weaponizing Multicultural Rhetoric to Ratify Asymmetries among Dance Practitioners, Dance Chronicle 45:1, 79-100
Herrera, B. (2022) Danza en el museo: propuestas participativas. Proceedings of XXVII Symposium ICOFOM LAM.
Herrera, B.(2022) Breaking Down Touch: Movement Analysis of Contact Improvisation. Proceedings of the 31st Biennial Conference of the International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation (ICKL).
Herrera, B. (2021) Conference Report: ‘Beyond Borders: Empires, Bodies, Science Fictions’ Fantastika Journal. Vol 5 No. 1. ISSN: 2514-8915
Presentations at conferences
A Pedagogical Mediation of Intergenerational Transmission with Youth in Guatemala’s K’iche Speaking Communities in the roundtable “Destabilizing Colonial Masks?: Collaborative Research-Creation Methodologies from Latin America” at the 47th International Council for Traditional Music World Conference University of Ghana, Legon 13–19 July 2023.
Cultural appropriation: a multidisciplinary approach to contest the asymmetries between the art market and traditional practitioners, a collective presentation at the Symposium Sustainability through Practices of Music and Dance: Community, climate, Cultural Heritage, and Decolonization by the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alberto Hurtado University, Chile, 26 September-01 October, 2022.
Perceiving fieldwork through a female body: challenges and obstacles for women as ethnographers in the roundtable “Gender at the academic play: unfolding research and pedagogical experiences from female embodied voices” at the 46th ICTM World Conference, 21–27 July 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
The contribution of Dance to the Council a presentation in the roundtable “What is (all) in a name?” at the 46th ICTM World Conference, 21–27 July 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
Feeling Digital, a collective panel for The Virtual Otherwise, a Biennial Anthropology Conference co-hosted by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology, 2-4 June 2022.
Multílogos: Knitting our Movement Network (Vernos a Nosotros Mismos), a collective presentation for ICTM Dialogues on decolonizing music and dance studies, 4 December 2021. Link.
Alternative Knowledge Production. The Case of MULTÍLOGOS, a presentation at DanceLAB in Tranzit International Symposium “What is Contemporary Dance?”, 11 November 2021, Cluj, Romania. Link.
La experiencia vivida del meneaíto, presentation at the conference “Tiempo, Identidad y Memoria” International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Music and Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Universidad de Ciencias y Artes, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, 2019
Dance at the museum: a participatory proposal, apresentation at the conference XXVII Encuentro del ICOFOM LAM “Museo, tradiciones y construcciones colectivas en América Latina y el Caribe. Enfoques teóricos”. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala.
Through the convex lens: converging journeys of contact improvisation practitioners, a presentation at the 45th International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Breaking down Touch: Movement Analysis of Contact Improvisation, a presentation at the 31st Biennial Conference of the International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation (ICKL). Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea (ENDCC), Ciudad de México.
Embodied selves: from structure to perception, a workshop for the X Anthropology and Sociology Colloquium, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
Exploring touch: generating movement and relationships, a workshop for the I Choreomundus Festival. Szeged, Hungary.
Bodies in motion: concepts of ethnochoreology and dance anthropology. XI Anthropology and Sociology Colloquium, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
Perceptions About Cultural Production in Guatemala’s Literary Field, VI Anthropology and Sociology Colloquium, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
About Art, a presentation at theIV Anthropology and Sociology Colloquium, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
Artistic Publications
2017
Poetry selection in Høre Hjemme: Poesikveld i Trondheim en antolologi. Editorial Forlaget Beijing Trondheim. Trondheim, Noruega. ISBN 978-82-93354-16-1
2016
Hacia la Tempestad. Magna Terra Editores. Ciudad de Guatemala. ISBN 978-9929-651-41-8
Artistic Training
2019
2018
2017
2017
2015
Contemporary creation. A performance workshop directed by Marta Pazos. Guatemala City, Guatemala
B12 Festival, Berlin, Germany. Trained with Rainer Behr, Wendy Houston, Kai Hill.
Freiburg Contact Improvisation Festival, Germany. Trained with Benoit Lachambre, Cristina Turdo, Susanne Martin.
Summer Meeting Barcelona, Spain. Focused on Contact Improvisation with Chris Aiken and Laura Hicks.
American Dance Festival Six Week School. Durham, NC, USA. Focused on contact improvisation and composition.