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is a teacher and doctor in anthropology from the University of Virginia, USA. He has worked for two decades in indigenous communities in Mexico (warihó, ñañú, xi oí and masewal peoples). He has specialized in the study of indigenous ecologies at their intersections with various local effects of climate change and extractivist geo-capitalism; as well as in the exploration of traditional dances as native technologies for visualization and intervention in socio-environmental relations. He is currently a full-time research professor in the postgraduate degree in social anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

is a mixtec-mexican origin choregrapher, performer and researcher in the field of traditional/folkloric dance. His practice has been engaged with memory and identity processes, it’s embodiment and reenacment in the practice of traditional/folkloric dance. He works the body as a live archive that configurates possibilities of resistance. He received the FONCA award for Performing Artists from the Mexican National Art Fund. In his new piece he researches on male identity. He is currently working as a teacher at the ENDF-INBA in Mexico City.

is a Mexican-Chilean-Austrian choreographer, dancer and cultural worker living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her choreographic work is concerned with the decolonisation of art, focusing on the political and social power of dance, understood as a social-environmental movement. Her performances are contemporary rituals for temporary dismantling the ideological separations between modern and traditional, the human, the animal and the vegetal, nature and culture. Amanda Piña is interested in making art beyond the idea of a product and in developing new frameworks for the creation of sensual experiences.