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.