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.

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.

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.