Mercy Tatiana Arias Otálora

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Mercy Tatiana Arias Otálora

Preferred pronouns:

she/her
Birth year:

1985
Primarily based in or works from:

Colombia
Skills:

dance project management teaching
Topics:

latin american postcolonialism identity
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I am inspired by the Tropical Latin American aesthetic, the autochthonous and the local customs. I build exuberant versions of collective events and personal memories. I am interested in the territory as a choreographer of our bodies and decisions.

Quick Facts:

Born in the mountains and marked by the Colombian Caribbean. Dancer for love, conviction and profession. Her artistic work is developed in the independent circuit where she has been a performer in different fields ranging from ballet for opera to performance theater through Burlesque. Her work of movement and teaching is nourished by the interweaving of Contemporary Dance, Somatic Techniques, Corporal Expression and Improvisation. She has a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices - UNSAM Argentina and is a graduated at the National University of Arts - Argentina in Choreographic Composition, where she deals with the study of decolonial aesthetics, in addition to constantly continuing his training in spaces of the non-academic circuit.

In 2019 she premieres her first work as a choreographer: Estado Tropical, within the Instalaciones Performáticas Autónomas Residence. She was part of the Editorial team of Textual Encounters of Proximidades Expositivas that brings together writings on dance works in 2019. In 2020 she was part of Mostanesa (Performance cycle) with Musa Paradisiaca. in 2022 she won the annual scholarship of dance journalism of IDARTES- Bogotá Colombia and the OPEN CALL for emergent artist of ARTLINK.

Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:

2023- Performatic Conference- Dance and Write. Part of the Scholarship on Dance Jornalism- IDARTES COLOMBIA
2022- Performatic Conference- Pain, Desire and Direction. Residence in Teatro de la Memoria- Bogotá
2019- Dance Play- Estado Tropical.

Highest educational degree:

Posgraduate on Contemporary Artistic Practices and Master in Economics

Work samples:

Estado Tropical

Menage a Trois: Pain, Desire and Direction

Arder o amanecer con ella

A dancer, some fragments adapted from the work "Diatribe of love against a seated man" by Gabriel García Marquéz and music in the voices of Latin American women offer us a reflection on heartbreak. Arder introduces us to a woman who, celebrating her silver wedding anniversary, discovers her misfortune and from there generates a catharsis of different emotions that make her burn and the fire that empties her inside.