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.