Masterpiece
Dance, Music
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso revisits the archetypes of the character dancer and the mariachi: excessively dramatic, virtuosic, sexual.
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso is a Colombian dancer living in Berlin. She graduated from the Limón Professional Studies Program in New York City, the B.A. in Dance at the Folkwang University in Essen and the M.A. SODA at HZT in Berlin. She approaches dance and performance as a carefully orchestrated artificial theatrical apparatus.
Her work challenges notions of tradition, identity, and privilege through absurdity and humor — and confronts the complexities of representation within the realm of dance. Luisa enjoys negotiating the shifts of codified narratives through the destabilization of certain dualities such as virtuosity/failure and masculinity/femininity. Her affinity to sound composition, loudspeakers and voice recordings is intrinsically interwoven with her way of thinking and making choreography.
Since 2016 she has ongoing collaborations with artists Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez and Peter Rubel. As a dancer she has been part of works from Leila Hekmat, caner teker, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez, Luísa Saraiva, Ben J. Riepe, Roman Pfeifer, Deva Schubert, Sanna Helena Berger, Emilie Gregersen, Kim Dall’armi, Armin Hokmi and Xenia Koghilaki.
Performances by and with Luisa Fernanda Alfonso