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current collaborators | dancers

Lesli Jara

From West Valley City, Utah, she is an artist, creator, choreographer, mentor, and performer. She has a BFA in Modern Dance and a Master of Arts in Teaching - Fine Arts from the University of Utah and is the current Artistic Director of Allegiant Dance Crew.

Lesie has been working with Punto de Inflexión since 2023.

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Multi-awarded Mexican dancer and creator. He has worked with the most important choreographers in Mexico. He has been awarded twice as the Best Male Dancer in the 2006 and 2017 National Choreography competitions, and Best Male Dancer in the 2021 Tijuana 4x4 Choreography Competition.

Tlathui has performed Stephanie García's works since 2014.

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Chicano dance artist from the Pacific Northwest. Fausto worked under the artistic direction of Donald Byrd at Spectrum Dance Theater for six seasons and toured throughout the country and abroad.

Since 2020, Fausto has been part of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and started working with Punto de Inflexión in 2025.

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Interdisciplinary artist, engaged as a choreographer, performer, filmmaker, and educator.

 

She was a company member of Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble and DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion for five seasons, during which she toured internationally and nationally and featured on America’s Got Talent, Season 12.

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Movement artist and choreographer interested in interdisciplinary arts, mixed-media performance, and the implementation of the human experience choreographically.

 

Em has a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and has worked with professors and dancemakers in various works performed at the Marriott Center for Dance.

current collaborators | creatives

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Working in video, sound, photography, drawing, sculpture, and other media, Collin has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and in traditional art spaces as well as film and video festivals. 

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Interdisciplinary artist, performer, and sound dramaturgist. His interests center on the investigation of sound and the body within the scenic space.

 

His sonic and stage works have been presented in countries such as the United States, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Sweden, and Germany, as well as in numerous venues and festivals throughout Mexico.

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Performer, choreographer, teacher, and stage manager in communities in the greater SLC area. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Utah University, receiving a BS in Dance Performance, and received her MFA in Modern Dance at The University of Utah. Samijo is also a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and has performed in works choreographed by local and international artists.

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Technical Director for the School of Dance at the University of Utah, and a freelance lighting designer of dance and theatre communities in the greater SLC area. Formerly, he worked with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

In 2016, he received the National Barbizon Award for Excellence in Lighting Design from the Kennedy Center.

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Mexican fashion and costume designer. In late 2010, she launched her brand, Santa Elisa. Since then, she has designed costumes for theater, dance, and advertising projects for companies and directors such as Alicia Sánchez y Compañía, CEPRODAC, Canal 22, Juan Carrillo, Jaciel Neri, La Quinta Teatro, Lourdes Luna, Raúl Parrao, Colectivo Pec, Danza Kaana, and Stephanie García, among others

past collaborators | dancers

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Rafael Abreu (bra)
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Jennifer Arriaga (mex)
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Angeline Bourgeault (usa)
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Jesús Chacón (mex)
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Cristian Fuentes (mex)
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Jorge Guillén (mex)
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Kesia Herrera (mex)
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María Herrera (mex)
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Lorena Kesseler (mex/fra)
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Josie Kolbeck (usa)
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Zcheccid Martínez (mex)
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Alberto Mora (mex)
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Zhenya Ragulin (usa-ukr)
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Atticus Reo (usa)
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Gabriela Ruíz (mex)
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Keily Tafiti (usa)
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Myrthe Weehuizen (mex/ndl)

past collaborators | guests

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TRAK is a professional dance and performance company currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Since its inception, the company has been co-directed by Hector Palacios and Stella Blanc (SWE).

Since its founding in 2016, TRAK Dance Ensemble has received cultural funding from the City and State of Salzburg.

Since 2024, the company has been based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Dancer, choreographer teacher and video maker. He has received two times The National Dance Award as performer and Choreographer and seven grants by FONCA (National and State Funds for Culture and Arts in Mexico). In 2009 he became the first Mexican choreographer to receive the GUGGENHEIM fellowship, in 2014 he becomes a member of SNCA (the National System of Arts Creators) and from 2018 to 2020 he receives the Grant as a Creator/interpreter with trajectory from FONCA.

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Alongside being the Artistic Director of NND/Galili Dance (1997–2008) and the co-founder  and Artistic Director of Dansgroep Amsterdam (2009-2010), choreographer Itzik Galili has worked with numerous renowned dance companies and built a portfolio of over 70 works.

On April 2006, Galili was made a Knight of the Royal Order of The House of Oranje Nassau by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and his work has been awarded since 1991.

past collaborators | creatives

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Graduated from the Bachelor’s Degree in Stage Design by Mexico’s National School of Performing Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura INBAL), which belongs to the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico. She started her lighting practice in 2011 and set design in 2014.

During her more than 10 years of experience, she has collaborated with a wide range of theater directors, choreographers.

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Arts administrator, a community organizer, a movement artist, a filmmaker, and a dance educator. Rae is the director and co-curator of the annual Noori Screendance Festival, facilitator of Monday Movement Lab,  and a 2022-2025 loveDANCEmore Artist in Residence. Rae has participated in Queer Spectra Arts Festival as an artist and volunteer since 2019. Rae joined the Queer Spectra Organizing Team in 2023.

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Distinguished Mexican set and lighting designer, and a key figure in 20th-century theater, dance, and opera. Self-taught, he pioneered lighting design at the UNAM Choreographic Workshop in 1970 and is recognized as a Creator Emeritus by the National System of Artistic Creators.

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Freelance lighting designer out of Salt Lake City, Utah since 2020. He has worked in corporate events and theater. He has been in the event industry professionally since 2016. 

 

He enjoys working with limited options and coming up with unique solutions.

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Visual artist specializing in multimedia design and video mapping. Within the performing arts sector, he has contributed to over 60 productions in both creative and technical capacities. He served as Technical Coordinator for multidisciplinary spectacles at the International Cervantino Festival for ten years—beginning with its 30th edition—and acted as Technical Director for the international festivals *Proyecta* (Oaxaca) and *Transversales* (Pachuca).

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Mexican composer, he studied composition at the Escuela Superior de Música under mentors such as Mario Lavista, Arturo Márquez, Héctor Quintanar, and others. 

He has collaborated with more than 20 national and international theater directors and choreographers. Since 2007, he has created sound design for films and documentaries, earning awards such as the *Oídos de Oro* (2015) and recognition from the Association of Theater Critics and Journalists (2018).

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