AURA LOPEZ
DIrector

In 2003 she moved to New York City where she completed her Profesional Studies in Limón Technique at the Limon Institute and Peridance Center. She graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with a BA in Contemporary Dance specializing in contact improvisation, dance education and choreography.

In 2006 she became dancer of L’Espace Compagnia di Danza di Palermo. Aura has choreographed danced and taught in Italy, Mexico, USA and UK. She has worked with the creators: Carlos Orta, Brenna Monroe, Jan de Schynkel and Giovanni Zappula. Her main teachers are: Carla Maxwell, Risa Steingberg, Oscar Velazquez Jennifer-Lynn Crawford, Gaby Agis, Oscar Velázquez, Ana Gonzáles, Jovair Longo, Olga Rodriguez, Mirta Blonsntein y Laura Zermeño. Nowadays Aura is the International Executive of Tándem Cía de Danza and she is studying her postgraduate in cultural politics and management. 



She is interested on the search and development of movement related to individuality in conjunction with martial arts and somatic techniques such as Skinner Release.

CARLOS ROJAS
Coodirector

Dancer and Choreographer: He is graduated from the Centro de Educación Artística (CEDART) “Frida Khalo” He initiated studying choreography in CICO (Centro de Investigacion Coreográfica).
Since 2005 he became former dancer and collaborator of the independent dance group “Luna Roja” Danza Contemporánea under the artistic direction of Ana Gonzalez. He has danced in diverse theatres around Mexico and Spain.
During the last years Carlos has been teaching Contemporary Dance in the Centro Cultural Los Talleres, Centre of Artistic Initiation and CICO-INBA. He has completed diverse workshops with members of the Jose Limon Company: Jim May, Ann Vachon and with the Canadian choreographer Peter Chin. 
 
Some of his main teachers are: Ana Gonzáles (Limón), Jenet Tame (Topf), Jean Haw (Graham), Andrea Zavala (Horton, Release, Graham) and Marina Acevedo.
Carlos is interested in the investigation and development of improvisation in alternative spaces –open or close- such as squares, parks, museums; as well as the internal impulses as a detonator of movement. 


ENRIQUE ACOSTA

Dancer and choreographer, he approached to dance by studying capoeria Angola with the master Diego Tartaglia from Brazil, He graduated from the Centro de Educación Artística CEDART “Luis Spota” where he specialized in music.
In 2006 he graduated as a choreographer at the Centro de Investigación Coreográfico (CICO). He has taken curses in Humprey-Limón/ Jim May, Ana Gonzáles y Brenna Monroe Cook; Release based/Janet Tame; Contact Improvisation/ Marina Acevedo; Choreographic Composition through energetic management/ Peter Chin; Body mind centring/ Mark Taylor.
Enrique has collaborated whit a lot of companies such as Tierra de Nadie, Picnolepsia, with whom he has performed at the Festival del Centro Histórico, Premio INBA-UAM and at the Teatro Ex-Teresa. Since 2003 he has presented his choreographic work in various theatres, such as: CENART, Teatro de la Danza, Teatro Legaria and Ex-Teresa.
Enrique is interested on the dancers subjectivity, understood as his or her individuality by taking it to the extreme of his/her possibilities: the making of feelings and thoughts happening is synchrony during the dance time. His work explores the search of the alternative spaces as an approach to identity, generating individual movement and the feeling of belonging

SAMANTHA PAOLI

Dancer and Choreographer, she started his studies in movement going through three years of Olympic Gymnastic in Ludscanov School. She studied Hawaiian for one year, before she started her dance studies for 4 years in contemporary dance technique at Centro Cultural Los Talleres, where she studied Limón and Improvisation techniques whit Oscar Velázquez and Laura Zermeño. In 2005 she studied ballet and floor bar at FLDanse for one year and a half.
Ha realizado trabajo coreográfico propio en Müuval Collective, además de haber colaborado con Laura Zermeño, Oscar Velázquez y Fabienne Larchere
Samantha has done her own choreographic work at Müuval Collective, as well as working whit Laura Zermeño and Oscar Velázquez and Fabienne Larchére. Samantha has completed workshops in Horton Technique/Cynthia Paris; Limón Technique/ Josée-Chartier; Danza Total 2005-2005 and Contact and Somatic presence /Vitali Konov.
Currently she takes contemporary dance class’s whit Wendy López, trains in yoga and is going through her studies in psychology at Centro Eleia. She attended the Intensive summer workshop Müuval Collective 2006 and 2007. Samantha is interested on the search of collaboration between sound and movement.

VERÓNICA MACíAS

Dancer and choreographer, graduated from the Centro de Educación Artística CEDART “Frida Kahlo”. She continued her studies at the Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea in Contemporary Dance.
She has taken curses such as clown, theatre, Pilates, body theatre, released based, release topf and Limón technique. She has given corporal expression classes and contemporary dance classes.
Alberto Pérez, Ana González, Luis Fandiño, Mirtha Blostein, Laura Rocha, Beatriz Madrid, Esther Lopezllera y Marcela Zárate, are among his memorable teachers. Verónica has done choreographic work in Müuval Collective as well as worked with Indigo 9 Danza Contemporanea. Verónica attended the Summer Intensive Workshop Müuval Collective 2007.
Currently she is interested on dance-theatre and on the creation of characters from an internal source, starting from the meaning of movement.