Beatriz Herrera Corado (Guatemala City, 1992)

My work intertwines different movement techniques explorations and academic research framed in ethnomusicology. I am a current PhD candidate at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz focusing on music-dance relations. I have trained in ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, afro-latin social dances, and West African dance. I attended the American Dance Festival in 2015, where I learned much about improvisation and composition. In 2016, I traveled to Norway to study the MA program Choreomundus - International Masters in Dance Knowledge Practice and Heritage. Since then, my perspective on dance changed drastically: I was challenged to have a critical perspective on all expressions of dance and performance. It allowed me to understand the power relations, identity debates, and philosophical concerns about dance. Hence, my academic career has always been intertwined with the way I approach the practice. From 2018 to 2023, I was mostly involved in local projects in Guatemala as a curator of contemporary dance and as an anthropologist doing fieldwork in communities about traditional games. This twofold experience of wide different contexts has multiplied my understanding of what dance can be and how it can be done. I do find in contemporary dance the possibility for inquiry and exploration of movement boundaries, and such is my motivation to participate in this project. .

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