Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica

Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica (Venezuela): after pursuing an academic career in languages and translation, she decides to wander out to Europe and dedicate her time and attention to dance. During her contemporary dance studies in Germany, she meets and works with different choreographers, dancers, visual artists, musicians, dramaturgs, performers, and writers. All these encounters influence her personally and professionally: making language and translation - once again - the main interest of her dance practice, this time in a much broader and freer sense. As any other freelancer, she performs, teaches, and produces her own work. Immersed in the research of peculiar communication forms, her work builds new ways of interaction within performers, audience, and space: materialising new languages. By studying emotions, she creates performative atmospheric ecosystems that bloom on the stage and beyond. Playfulness, humour, and search for interconnectivity are important elements for her compositions, classes, and life experiences. Cover photo Marcos Angeloni