Transdisciplinary creator. She graduated from the Mexican Dance Academy of the National School of Theatre Arts and the National School of Puppetry Arts in Charleville-Mézières, France. She develops collaborative projects involving contemporary puppetry, movement, and the visual arts. Her work ranges from the construction and animation of figurative objects to teaching contemporary puppetry, as well as the creation of installations, sets, costumes, and masks. She has worked with various companies involved in contemporary puppetry in France, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In Mexico, she regularly collaborates with Teatro Línea de Sombra, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, and Katia Castañeda.

A contemporary dance group formed by Myrna de la Garza Brena in 1992, MdMar's creative work has maintained a constant concern for reflecting on the quality of the bond that connects human beings with each other, with other living beings, and with the planet. The choreographic works incorporate humor and abstraction as cross-cutting elements, as well as the use of original music, and promote an eco-socially sensitive awareness. Since its inception, MdMar has participated in various national and international dance and multidisciplinary seasons and festivals linking science and art. It boasts a broad repertoire of choreographies and dance videos.

Director artístico. Estudió Composición, Análisis y Dirección de Orquesta en Valencia, Salzburgo, Luxemburgo y París con Manuel Galduf y Alexander Müllenbach. Radica en México desde 1997. Director artístico del Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea y director titular de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco. Ha sido reconocido en dos ocasiones por la Unión Mexicana de Críticos de Teatro y Música y premiado en Luxemburgo, Holanda e Italia. Más de setenta orquestas en veinticinco países y una discografía de quince títulos avalan la trayectoria de Castillo quien, además cuenta con un amplio catálogo de películas silentes con musicalización en vivo, más de 200 estrenos mundiales y cientos de estrenos en México. Como compositor, sus obras se interpretan en importantes foros y festivales de música contemporánea. Es profesor de composición en la Escuela Superior de Música del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), realiza la edición crítica de las obras de Silvestre Revueltas en colaboración con Roberto Kolb y es director artístico del Ensamble Cepromusic.

Pianist. He studied with Néstor Castañeda at the National School of Music of the UNAM and with Ludovica Mosca in Barcelona, ​​Spain. He has been a soloist with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Sonora Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber of Fine Arts Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and other orchestras. He has premiered several works; Leonardo Coral, Georgina Derbez, and Marcela Rodríguez have dedicated works to him. In 2013, he directed the show Huey Mecatl at the Festival de México and the Aarhus Festuge in Denmark. As a resident of the Cepromusic Ensemble, he has performed at the Huddersfield Festival in England and the Darmstadt Festival in Germany. He has toured Brazil, Scotland, Colombia, Spain, and the United States, and has participated in festivals in Mexico, Spain, and France.

Soprano. She studied music at the Conservatorio de las Rosas and the National School of Music of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) with Thusnelda Nieto. She is a first-generation graduate of the Estudio Ópera de Bellas Artes and has received several scholarships. She has toured Spain, Italy, Germany, and Peru. Her repertoire includes works by Orff, Haydn, and other composers, as well as operas by Federico Ibarra, Bruno Maderna, and others. She has collaborated with the Cepromusic Ensemble, the National Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles. In 2019, she recorded her most recent album, Las pasiones del alma. Entre la esperanza y el miedo (The Passions of the Soul. Between Hope and Fear), with the antique music orchestra Antiqva Metropoli.

Mezzo-soprano. She graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she earned a doctorate, specializing in contemporary vocal repertoire. She has also performed music from the Middle Ages to the present day. She is currently a member of the vocal quartet Quince Ensemble, with whom she has performed Morton Feldman's Three Voices and David Lang's Love Fail (which premiered in Poland). She has also participated in numerous university residencies and festivals in various cities across the United States. She is also a founding member of the Damselfly Trio for flute, harp, and voice. She teaches voice classes at Winona State University and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and also maintains a private online studio in Minnesota.

Baritone. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Yale School of Music. He has shared the stage with Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata, Paul O’Dette, Steven Stubbs, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, and John Eliot Gardinery the English Baroque Soloists, among other early music artists and ensembles. He has appeared at the Salzburg, Berlin, and Lucerne Festivals. His repertoire includes Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus, Luciano Berio’s Symphony, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Iannis Xenakis’s Oresteia, and other 20th and 21st-century works. He is the founding associate artistic director of the Lakes Area Music Festival, an associate artist with Heartbeat Opera, and an avid singer of the North American vocal tradition known as Sacred Harp.

Theater researcher and playwright. Theater director for El Fin del Mundo, a program of intervention and theatrical occupation of ruined spaces conditioned by violence. He has characterized his work by implementing documentary actions in countries that have endured armed conflict in recent years, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan, India, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Gaza Strip, Ukraine, Poland, and Mexico. Member of the National System of Art Creators.

Mexican journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She wrote the book "Nobody Asked for Forgiveness. Stories of Impunity and Resistance" (2015), in which she sought to understand how people who have suffered state violence construct a new meaning in their lives. "La Tropa. Por qué mata un soldado" (The Troop. Why a Soldier Kills) (2019) seeks to understand when someone kills, what has died before. Editor of "Ya no somos las mismas" (We Are Not the Same Anymore) and "Áqui sigue la guerra" (The War Is Still Here) (2020). Co-author of "Recetario para la memoria Guanajuato" (Cookbook for Memory, Guanajuato, 2022) and author of "Fruto" (Antílope, 2022), in which she talks about how not all women are mothers, but all have cared for and been cared for. She directed the documentaries "No sucumbió la eternidad" (Eternity Did Not Succumb) (2017), which narrates how one survives absence, and " Paisajes" (Landscapes) (2020), about the tension between the beauty and horror of clandestine graves and how searching families learn to read the territory.

Journalist for the news site Animal Político. She coordinated the book "Mexicanas en pie de lucha" published in April 2022. She holds a degree in Communication and Journalism from the Aragón School of Higher Studies and has been a reporter and columnist for several national media outlets. She is the co-author of "The Master Scam," a journalistic investigation into one of the largest corruption scandals that has won multiple awards and has received national and international recognition.

Journalist, writer, and filmmaker. Author of a dozen books chronicling rebellion, power, and justice in 21st-century Mexico. Some, such as The Sinaloa Cartel (Grijalbo), The War of the Zetas (Grijalbo), and Slim (Debate), were included in Reforma newspaper's annual lists of the best non-fiction works. With the aim of encouraging collaboration between film and journalism to tell true stories, he created Detective, a company linked to the production company Bengala, of which he is also a founding partner. He is the director of the series 1994 (Netflix) and the films The Mayor and The Mountain, soon to be released.

Orchestra Conductor. He studied at the National School of Music (now the Faculty of Music) of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and graduated with honors from the Vienna Conservatory. He was artistic director of the Bellas Artes Opera from 2007 to 2009. In the field of opera, he has worked with Francisco Araiza, Ramón Vargas, Rolando Villazón, Javier Camarena, and María Katzarava. From 2005 to 2016, he was associate conductor of the Minería Symphony Orchestra, and from 2011 to 2016, he was principal guest conductor and artistic director of the Mexico City Philharmonic, where he was recognized as an original and contemporary programmer and conductor. He has performed in Germany, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Switzerland. He has worked with soloists such as Irvine Arditti, Philippe Quint, Sarah Chang, Valentina Lisitsa, Giora Feidman, and Joaquín Achúcarro, among others. He was artistic and general director of the Mexico City Historic Center Festival between 2002 and 2007.

Choreographer and performer. She trained and graduated from the Conservatoire National de Montpellier, France, the LABAN Centre in London, and the New World School of the Arts in Miami, with a BFA scholarship, summa cum laude. Throughout her professional career, she has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Damien Jalet, Robert Battle, Zvi Gotheiner, Tony Fabre, Johannes Wieland, Yann Lheureux, Tania Pérez-Salas, Ballet Hispanico, Diego Vazquez, Annabelle Lopéz Ochoa, Maurice Causey, and Human Field. As a creator, Sarah produces various projects ranging from stage, visual, and event work. She collaborates with artists from other fields, blending other artistic writings with dance. Her work represents a reflection on the human condition and our existence in an ever-evolving modern world. Sarah's works have been presented in the United States, Canada, France, Mexico, Panama, and Morocco. 

Interdisciplinary artist. He has ventured into the performing and visual arts as a dancer and choreographer since 2007. He has created and participated in various dance and theater projects, video art, video installations, 3D mapping, video games, digital animation, and AR. He has collaborated with independent artists, dance and theater companies, and various performances. In 2021, he won the Festival of Lights in Lyon, France, with his project Le lapin dans la lune la Place de tearraux. He also won project support for the Flash ACT 2022 program and festival. In 2021, he served as co-artistic director of W.E. Cie with his partner Sarah Matry-Guerre and launched the Solid-air platform, his first online festival, in April of that same year.

Andrea Chirinos Brown, directress.

DAJU began its history on August 6, 2018, offering a space for the professional development and consolidation of young dance performers between the ages of 18 and 24, recently graduated from professional schools or in the process of professional consolidation. This platform, promoted by Difusión Cultural UNAM and Danza UNAM, and currently directed by Andrea Chirinos Brown, promotes research and experimentation as a working method for the creation of contemporary dance. DAJU's work follows the fundamental principles of a university, as dance is not a craft that can be taught but rather emerges from networks of knowledge that connect students, feeds on the individual perceptions of each member, and generates collective knowledge. Another of DAJU's objectives is to activate various unconventional performance spaces on and off the university campus.

Choreographer from the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance, she specializes in Cultural Policies and Cultural Management from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). In 1992, she founded a professional contemporary dance company with Benito González and Quiatora Monorriel. In 2002, she won first place in the 23rd INBA-UAM National Dance Award and the Raúl Flores Guerrero Critics' Prize. She has taught courses, workshops, and diplomas on movement, choreographic composition, and improvisation in Mexico and abroad. She is the director of Danza UNAM and directs the Danza Mínima project.

Choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She studied dance at the Boston Conservatory in Massachusetts and Marymount Manhattan College in New York, United States. In 1998, she began her Mitrovica project, which continues to this day. She has worked extensively in arts education with different communities, using a multidisciplinary approach that promotes human relationships through play.

Transdisciplinary creator. She graduated from the Mexican Dance Academy of the National School of Theatre Arts and the National School of Puppetry Arts in Charleville-Mézières, France. She develops collaborative projects involving contemporary puppetry, movement, and the visual arts. Her work ranges from the construction and animation of figurative objects to teaching contemporary puppetry, as well as the creation of installations, sets, costumes, and masks. She has worked with various companies involved in contemporary puppetry in France, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In Mexico, she regularly collaborates with Teatro Línea de Sombra, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, and Katia Castañeda.

Choreographer and performer. She trained and graduated from the Conservatoire National de Montpellier, France, the LABAN Centre in London, and the New World School of the Arts in Miami, with a BFA scholarship, summa cum laude. Throughout her professional career, she has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Damien Jalet, Robert Battle, Zvi Gotheiner, Tony Fabre, Johannes Wieland, Yann Lheureux, Tania Pérez-Salas, Ballet Hispanico, Diego Vazquez, Annabelle Lopéz Ochoa, Maurice Causey, and Human Field. As a creator, Sarah produces various projects ranging from stage, visual, and event work. She collaborates with artists from other fields, blending other artistic writings with dance. Her work represents a reflection on the human condition and our existence in an ever-evolving modern world. Sarah's works have been presented in the United States, Canada, France, Mexico, Panama, and Morocco. 

Interdisciplinary artist. He has ventured into the performing and visual arts as a dancer and choreographer since 2007. He has created and participated in various dance and theater projects, video art, video installations, 3D mapping, video games, digital animation, and AR. He has collaborated with independent artists, dance and theater companies, and various performances. In 2021, he won the Festival of Lights in Lyon, France, with his project Le lapin dans la lune la Place de tearraux. He also won project support for the Flash ACT 2022 program and festival. In 2021, he served as co-artistic director of W.E. Cie with his partner Sarah Matry-Guerre and launched the Solid-air platform, his first online festival, in April of that same year.

Andrea Chirinos Brown, directress.

DAJU began its history on August 6, 2018, offering a space for the professional development and consolidation of young dance performers between the ages of 18 and 24, recently graduated from professional schools or in the process of professional consolidation. This platform, promoted by Difusión Cultural UNAM and Danza UNAM, and currently directed by Andrea Chirinos Brown, promotes research and experimentation as a working method for the creation of contemporary dance. DAJU's work follows the fundamental principles of a university, as dance is not a craft that can be taught but rather emerges from networks of knowledge that connect students, feeds on the individual perceptions of each member, and generates collective knowledge. Another of DAJU's objectives is to activate various unconventional performance spaces on and off the university campus.

Guest Conductor. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music, specializing in violin and conducting. He earned postgraduate degrees in musicology and cultural management, and completed his doctoral studies in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University in the United States, under the tutelage of Victor Yampolsky. He has given concerts in 30 countries across America, Asia, and Europe, leading ensembles such as the Palazzo Ricci Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Ensemble Laboratorium, and the UNAM Philharmonic. He has received several awards, scholarships, and recognitions, including a Fulbright scholarship and the Markowitz Award for Orchestral Conductors (2013). Since 2018, he has been a member of the Performing Arts Program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico. He has served as principal conductor of the Querétaro Philharmonic Orchestra and principal conductor of the Prometeo Sinfonietta in the United States. Since 2019, he has been the artistic director of the Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra.

Playwright. He studied Stage Direction and Dramaturgy at the Royal School of Dramatic Art and holds a PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2020, he has been the artistic director of the Autumn Festival of the Community of Madrid. He has been responsible for various dramaturgies and rewrites: Medea (Teatre Lliure), Electra (National Ballet of Spain and Teatro de la Zarzuela, 2017), Fuenteovejuna (National Classical Theatre Company, 2017); Troyanas (Mérida Classical Theatre Festival, 2017), among others. Some of his works include The Sea: Vision of Children Who Have Never Seen It (2022), The Geometry of Wheat (National Prize for Dramatic Literature, 2019); The Days of Snow (2017, Lorca Prize for Best Author 2019); All the Nights of a Day (2018, winner of the 3rd AAT Playwriting Competition); The Dark Stone (2015, winner of the Max Award for Best Playwright 2016 and the Ceres Award for Best Playwright 2016, among others); Ushuaia (2013-2022, winner of the Ricardo López de Aranda Award 2013); Cliff (acantilado) [new title and version: How can I not be Montgomery Clift?], winner of the 4th LAM Competition 2010; Hungarians, winner of the 2000 National University Theatre Award; and Fever, second prize (1999 National Short Theatre Award). He is the author of the poetry collections In This House (2020) and If You Discover a Fire (2017).

Actor, director, and drama teacher. He holds a degree in Acting from the National School of Theater Arts (ENAT) of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature. He is a scholarship recipient of the Young Creators program (2011-2012) and the National System of Art Creators (2018-2021). As an actor, he has participated in more than 40 productions. He has directed 25 professional productions of various kinds. He has been invited to direct the Institut Valencià de Cultura in Spain and the Compañía Nacional de Teatro in Mexico, where he received the La Dama de la Victoria award for best director from the Association of Theater Critics and Journalists for his production Numancia. He is the founder and director of the company Los Colochos Teatro, with which he has participated in numerous national and international festivals, touring countries such as Spain, Portugal, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Peru, the United States, Colombia, Germany, and Cuba.

Actress. She holds a degree in Dramatic Literature and Theatre Major from UNAM. She is an instructor in psychocorporal techniques through the Río Abierto System. She has worked in theater and film with David Gaitán, Daniel Veronese, Claudio Valdés Kuri, among others. She has continued her acting training in seminars and workshops in Mexico and Argentina with professors such as Héctor Mendoza, José Caballero, and David Hevia, among others. She has also developed her skills in yoga, music, clowning, and astrology. She was recognized as Best Actress at the 2022 ACPT Awards and the 2021 Metropolitan Theater Awards for her work in the monologue La persona deprimida by Daniel Veronese. In 2019, she was nominated for a Metropolitan Theater Award for her work in Edipo nadie es ateo by David Gaitán. She has also been nominated twice by the APT for her work in Claudio Valdes Kuri's Becket or the Honor of God (1999) and David Hevia's Playmedea (2009). Her film performance has been recognized with a 2021 Ariel nomination for her work in Isaac Cherem's Leona and, previously, in 2011 for her work in Antonio Serrano's Hidalgo, the Untold Story.

Transdisciplinary creator. She graduated from the Mexican Dance Academy of the National School of Theatre Arts and the National School of Puppetry Arts in Charleville-Mézières, France. She develops collaborative projects involving contemporary puppetry, movement, and the visual arts. Her work ranges from the construction and animation of figurative objects to teaching contemporary puppetry, as well as the creation of installations, sets, costumes, and masks. She has worked with various companies involved in contemporary puppetry in France, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In Mexico, she regularly collaborates with Teatro Línea de Sombra, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, and Katia Castañeda.

Director artístico. En poco tiempo Gustavo Rivero Weber ha llevado a la Orquesta Juvenil Universitario Eduardo Mata (OJUEM) a ser reconocida como una de las mejores orquestas del país, y que ha destacado internacionalmente con conciertos en Italia y Nueva York. En 2019, Rivero Weber tuvo su debut discográfico como director de orquesta con una grabación de música mexicana, El árbol de la vida, para el sello Naxos, que tuvo muy buena repercusión en la crítica especializada. Su formación en la técnica de dirección orquestal fue con Avi Ostrowsky, Alun Francis y Jan Latham-Koenig. Ha dirigido con éxito a orquestas en México, Austria, Hungría, República Checa, España y Argentina. Es egresado del Instituto Curtis de Filadelfia, en donde estudió con Jorge Bolet y en el Conservatorio Estatal de Odessa en Ucrania. Ha grabado varios discos para piano con música mexicana, latinoamericana y europea, además de uno dedicado a la música de Friedrich Nietzsche.

Pianist, producer, and opera coach. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, then earned his advanced diploma in piano from the Royal Conservatory of Mons, and graduated with distinction from the Maastricht Conservatory. As a pianist, he has performed on stages around the world, including 22 times at Carnegie Hall. In addition to his career as a pianist, he has worked as an opera expert, collaborating with top singers at the Metropolitan Opera House and producing major shows and festivals.