Herrera Corado, Beatriz
(Univ.-Ass. MA.)
 

My work intertwines in different movement techniques and academic research framed in ethnomusicology. I am current PhD candidate at Kunst Universtiät Graz focusing in music-dance relations in the European post-colonial setting and University assistant at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since a very early age I trained ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, afro-latin social dances and West African dance. I attended American Dance Festival in 2015, where I trained contact improvisation with Ishmael Houston Jones. In 2016, I traveled to Norway to study the MA program Choreomundus - International Masters in Dance Knowledge Practice and Heritage. My thesis focuses on contact improvisation summer festivals as a diverse practice. Since then, my academic career has always been intertwined in the way I approach the practice. An example for this is the performance Whitemess in collaboration with Heather van Niekerk, in which we explored racism and apartheid in Guatemala and South-Africa. From 2018 to 2023, I was involved in local projects in Guatemala as a curator of contemporary dance and as an anthropologist doing fieldwork in communities about traditional games. This twofold experience of wide different contexts has multiplied my understandings of what dance can be and how it can be done. I have presented my work at several academic conferences, and I am a member of the International Council for the Traditions of Music and Dance.

Contact: +43/1/711 55 4213 | Room: AW U 0216
e-mail: herrera-corado@mdw.ac.at@mdw.ac.at