MEDIATHEK

TANIA PÉREZ-SALAS (Artistic Director, Choreographer) was born in Mexico City. She started dancing at an early age and trained for eight years with Xavier Francis, one of the leading contemporary dance teachers in Mexico. Working in dance, theater, and feature films as an actress, dancer, and choreographer, Pérez-Salas began winning awards in 1993, as performer and choreographer. Pérez-Salas is a thrice recipient of the contemporary dance fellowship by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, FONCA in 1994–95, 1997–98, and 2000–01. In 2004 she received a fellowship for her project Clodia the Impudent. In 2005 she was awarded the Arts of the America’s sponsorship from the University of Austin, Texas. In 2009 she was awarded sponsorship from CONACULTA for her project Dance for All. Currently she is sponsored by CENART, in their Commissioned Work Program and FONCA, through their program Mexico on Stage. She has been guest choreographer for the National Dance Company of Mexico, premiering 3.Fourteen Sixteen at the Palace of Fine Arts, December 5, 2002, and Between Heaven and Earth, for the theatre’s 40th Anniversary on November 6, 2003. Pérez-Salas founded her Compañia de Danza in 1994. In addition to their home season in Mexico City, she has directed her company through tours and major festivals including the Latin American Festival in Montreal, the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, which co-produced one of the three works presented, Festival Oriente Occidente in Italy, the Cervantino Festival, and the New York City Center Fall For Dance Festival, among others. In 2006, the company performed at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and The International Shanghai Festival for the Performing Arts. From 2006–2008 her company toured Mexico and the United States, performing, among others, at the Yerba Buena Theatre of San Francisco, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Touhill Performing Arts Center, and the Opera House of Cairo and Alexandria in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of relations between Mexico and Egypt. They also performed at The Galway Arts Festival in Ireland and the Tel Aviv Dance Festival in Israel at the Tel Aviv Opera House, the Sherover Theatre in Jerusalem, and the Hoff Auditorium in Haifa. Periodically she has given lectures in Mexico and abroad. Tania Pérez-Salas’ company has been selected as showcase artists at the CINARS 2002 conference and at Gateway to the Americas conferences in Mexico City in 2003 and 2004. Since 2008 Pérez-Salas has been a host for Channel 22 in the program, Juego de Cuerpos, which aims to achieve a TV spot whose central theme is dance. This project has had two consecutive seasons and this year will air the third season. (Quelle: northrop.umn.edu) csm